The Bystander Effect and Why You're a Horrible Person

The bystander effect is a phenomenon that was popularized by the horrible Kitty Genovese murder in 1964. Bibb Latane and John Darley were some of the first researchers to investigate it. Latane and Darley Paper: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27828530?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Join Our Community For Updates and News! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MindfulThinks/ Sources: https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/psyifp/aeechterhoff/sommersemester2012/schluesselstudiendersozialpsychologiea/fischerkruegergreitem_bystandermetaana_psybull2011.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility http://www.jstor.org/stable/27828530?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/soc_psych/latane_bystand.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/bystander-effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=175ig2I9rt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufs8cKyzLvg