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Humankind: A Hopeful History

by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words

. But among those who were led to believe five other students were sitting in rooms nearby, only 62 per cent took action.11 Voila: the bystander effect. Latané and Darley’s findings would be among the most pivotal contributions made to social psychology. Over the next twenty years, more than a thousand

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day.14 It’s become nothing less than a modern parable on the perilous anonymity of big-city life. 3 For years I assumed the bystander effect was just an inevitable part of life in a metropolis. But then something happened in the very city where I work – something that forced me

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special about the Dutch culture, or this neighbourhood in Amsterdam, or even these four men, that accounts for the anomaly? On the contrary. Though the bystander effect may still be taught in many textbooks, a meta-analysis published in 2011 has shed new light on what bystanders do in emergencies. Meta-analysis

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is research about research, meaning it analyses a large group of other studies. This meta-analysis reviewed the 105 most important studies on the bystander effect from the past fifty years, including that first experiment by Latané and Darley (with students in a room).18 Two insights came out of this

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study-of-studies. One: the bystander effect exists. Sometimes we think we don’t need to intervene in emergencies because it makes more sense to let somebody else take charge. Sometimes we

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drowning or being attacked) and if the bystanders can communicate with one another (they’re not isolated in separate rooms), then there’s an inverse bystander effect. ‘Additional bystanders,’ write the article’s authors, ‘even lead to more, rather than less, helping.’19 And that’s not all. A few months after

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, tomorrow we’re submitting this article to a leading psychology journal.’20 I read the working title: ‘Almost Everything You Think You Know About the Bystander Effect is Wrong.’ Lindegaard scrolls down and points to a table. ‘And look, here you can see that in 90 per cent of cases, people help

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”’, at5.nl (10 February 2016). 17‘Vier helden redden moeder en kind uit zinkende auto’, nos.nl (10 February 2016). 18Peter Fischer et al., ‘The bystander-effect: a meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies’, Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 137, Issue 4 (2011). 19Ibid. 20R. Philpot et al

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Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 11 Mar 2015 · 1,737pp · 491,616 words

in frequency to fixation. Ten thousand years later there’s an ice age and the species goes out of business. It evolved to extinction. The “bystander effect” is that, when someone is in trouble, solitary individuals are more likely to intervene than groups. A college student apparently having an epileptic seizure was

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to purchase by buying nice clothes. And when it comes to purchasing expected utilons—then, of course, shut up and multiply. * 326 Bystander Apathy The bystander effect, also known as bystander apathy, is that larger groups are less likely to act in emergencies—not just individually, but collectively. Put an experimental subject

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that the total group, combined, may have less chance of helping than one individual. I’ve mused a bit on the evolutionary psychology of the bystander effect. Suppose that in the ancestral environment, most people in your band were likely to be at least a little related to you—enough to be

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dangerous bid for high status. (Come to think, I can’t actually recall seeing shyness discussed in analyses of the bystander effect, but that’s probably just my poor memory.) Can the bystander effect be explained primarily by diffusion of moral responsibility? We could be cynical and suggest that people are mostly interested in

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though it could well have represented a strictly selfish threat and (b) telling people about the bystander effect reduces the bystander effect, even though they’re no more likely to be held publicly responsible thereby. In fact, the bystander effect is one of the main cases I recall offhand where telling people about a bias actually

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when you’re trying to e.g. adjust your calibration). So we should be careful not to be too cynical about the implications of the bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility, if we interpret individual action in terms of a cold, calculated attempt to avoid public censure. People seem at least to

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sometimes hold themselves responsible, once they realize they’re the only ones who know enough about the bystander effect to be likely to act. Though I wonder what happens if you know that you’re part of a crowd where everyone has been told

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about the bystander effect . . . * 1. Bibb Latané and John M. Darley, “Bystander ‘Apathy,’” American Scientist 57, no. 2 (1969): 244–268, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27828530. 2. Cialdini

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, Influence. 327 Collective Apathy and the Internet In the last essay I covered the bystander effect, a.k.a. bystander apathy: given a fixed problem situation, a group of bystanders is actually less likely to act than a single bystander. The

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-forces with strangers back in the ancestral environment; it was mostly people you knew. And in fact, when all the subjects know each other, the bystander effect diminishes. So I know this is an amazing and revolutionary observation, and I hope that I don’t kill any readers outright from shock by

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Internet. Perhaps because our innate coordination instincts are not tuned for: Being part of a group of strangers. (When all subjects know each other, the bystander effect diminishes.) Being part of a group of unknown size, of strangers of unknown identity. Not being in physical contact (or visual contact); not being able

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web apps, but they tend to be along the lines of sign this petition! yay, you signed something! rather than how can we counteract the bystander effect, restore motivation, and work with native group-coordination instincts, over the Internet? Some of the things that come to mind: Put a video of someone

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

) [641].  Providing an independent verification channel for information such as a phone number to call. This exploits the “not-my-problem” fallacy (more formally the bystander effect, see below), no-one actually calls the number since they assume that someone else will. As a one study put it, “subjects stated that they

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apparent apathy of some of the bystanders, was exaggerated by journalists). This event was later investigated in depth by psychologists, who termed the phenomenon the “bystander effect”. They found that the more bystanders there are, the less likely it is that any one of them will come to a victim’s aid

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62%, and with five bystanders it had fallen to 32%, with each one thinking that it was someone else’s job to intervene [653]. The bystander effect exists in many variations. For example in one experiment subjects were shown a sample line X and three other lines A, B, and C, of

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the others couldn’t all be wrong (although technically this could be taken as a variation of wanting to fit in). On the Internet the bystander effect is particularly pernicious. Recall that the effect increases with the number of bystanders present. In the Genovese murder the presence of a relatively small group

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people was enough to trigger the bystander effect. On the Internet, the entire world is potentially a bystander. This is the worst possible situation into which you can deploy a mechanism that can

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fall prey to the bystander effect, and although phishers probably aren’t psychology graduates they do know how to take advantage of this. (If you’re ever caught in a situation

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where the bystander effect is causing problems then you can counteract the diffusion of responsibility by singling out an individual and making it their direct responsibility. “You! Call an

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall · 18 Aug 2014 · 298pp · 85,386 words

into the importance of social cues in defining what issues people respond to and what ones they ignore. It is a fascinating feature of this bystander effect—as it was subsequently named—that the more people we assume know about a problem, the more likely we are to ignore our own judgment

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and watch the behavior of others to identify an appropriate response. A string of experiments confirmed the power of the bystander effect. In one particularly entertaining experiment, an actor faked having a seizure over the laboratory intercom. The last words heard from him were “I could really

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and refused to get off their chairs. Climate change is a global problem that requires a collective response and so is especially prone to this bystander effect. When we become aware of the issue, we scan the people around us for social cues to guide our own response: looking for evidence of

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the basis for yet another study. It bears the enticing title “Conspiracist Ideation in the Blogosphere in Response to Research on Conspiracist Ideation.” While the bystander effect emerges from a sense of shared powerlessness, and a sense of shared power enables a range of abuses and violence, the anonymity of the new

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amplify its impacts through what scientists call positive feedbacks. There are many such social feedbacks operating in our attitudes to climate change—such as the bystander effect or false consensus effect—that exaggerate small differences and widen the divides between people. But this can only be a partial answer to the question

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norm for action. But in the absence of a clear objective and a movement that could galvanize the audience into action, it created a global bystander effect: two billion people waiting on the sidelines to see if someone else would do something. 30 Postcard from Hopenhagen How Climate Negotiations Keep Preparing for

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events follow from present choices and imagining the specific moment when they might be brought to account. They avoid the problems of diffused responsibility and bystander effect by creating a direct connection between ourselves and those who will be affected. They build on our hardwired sense of care for our children. And

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in which new people were invited to step forward to receive a special blessing. It’s a simple but very effective device to break the bystander effect. As Hunter says, “Even if you are a little tentative, you see all these people going forward and you think, ‘I have nothing to fear

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic · 2 Jul 2008

field of heuristics and biases, but from the field of social psychology. A now-famous series of experiments by Latane and Darley (1969) uncovered the bystander effect, also known as bystander apathy, in which larger numbers of people are less likely to act in emergencies - not 110 Global catastrophic risks only individually

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student apparently having an epileptic seizure was helped 85% of the time by a single bystander and 31% of the time by five bystanders. The bystander effect is usually explained as resulting from diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance. Being part of a group reduces individual responsibility. Everyone hopes that someone else

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does anything. Support for this hypothesis is adduced from manipulations in which subjects believe that the victim is especially dependent on them; this reduces the bystander effect or negates it entirely. Cialdini (2001) recommends that if you are ever in an emergency, you single out one bystander, and ask that person to

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evidence placidly, with brief, camouflaged glances at those around us. Therefore everyone is likely to see everyone else looking unruffled and failing to act. The bystander effect is not about individual selfishness or insensitivity to the suffering of others. Alone subjects do usually act. Pluralistic ignorance can explain, and individual selfishness cannot

You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words

Bias Chapter 5 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy Chapter 6 - Procrastination Chapter 7 - Normalcy Bias Chapter 8 - Introspection Chapter 9 - The Availability Heuristic Chapter 10 - The Bystander Effect Chapter 11 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect Chapter 12 - Apophenia Chapter 13 - Brand Loyalty Chapter 14 - The Argument from Authority Chapter 15 - The Argument from Ignorance

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’ve been bombarded by reports or have filled your head with fears, those images will overshadow new information that might contradict your beliefs. 10 The Bystander Effect THE MISCONCEPTION: When someone is hurt, people rush to their aid. THE TRUTH: The more people who witness a person in distress, the less likely

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and thought, “I could help them, but I’m sure someone will be along.” Everyone thinks that. And no one stops. This is called the bystander effect. In 1968, Eleanor Bradley fell and broke her leg in a busy department store. For forty minutes, people just stepped over and around her until

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in New York City. Thousands of people looked on. No one used a cell phone to call police. The culprit in both cases was the bystander effect. In a crowd, your inclination to rush to someone’s aid fades, as if diluted by the potential of the group. Everyone thinks someone is

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of sensational reporting, but at the time it was written it led to intense interest in the phenomenon from psychologists. Social psychologists started studying the bystander effect soon after the story went viral, and they determined that the more people present when a person needs emergency help, the less likely it is

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to safety than you would if you were part of a crowd. When it’s just you, all the responsibility to help is yours. The bystander effect gets stronger when you think the person who needs help is being harmed by someone that person knows. Lance Shotland and Margaret Straw showed in

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powers of observation they imagined in their judges. Pushing ahead, the researchers tried another experiment based on the research of Miller and McFarland on the bystander effect (the more people who witness an emergency, the less likely any one person will leap into action). Once again, their research showed when people were

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/media-resources/school-associated-violent-deaths. Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1973). Availability: a heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognitive Psychology 5, 207–232. The Bystander Effect Darley, J. M., & Batson, C. D. (1973). From Jerusalem to Jericho: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. Journal of Personality and

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel · 17 Oct 2022 · 370pp · 112,809 words

, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Henk Elffers, and Paul A. M. Van Lange, “Be Aware to Care: Public Self-Awareness Leads to a Reversal of the Bystander Effect,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48, no. 4 (July 2012): 926. 17. Lara Maister, Mel Slater, Maria v. Sanchez-Vives, and Manos Tsakiris, “Changing Bodies

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words

better than did those primed to think about their gender. Another realm of rapid group influences on behavior is usually known incorrectly. This is the “bystander effect” (aka the “Genovese syndrome”).36 This refers to the notorious 1964 case of Kitty Genovese, the New Yorker who was raped and stabbed to death

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brave intervention, the more people present, the less likely anyone is to help—“There’s lots of people here; someone else will step forward.” The bystander effect does occur in nondangerous situations, where the price of stepping forward is inconvenience. However, in dangerous situations, the more people present, the more likely individuals

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. 35. M. Shih et al., “Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance,” Psych Sci 10 (1999): 80. 36. P. Fischer et al., “The Bystander-Effect: A Meta-analytic Review on Bystander Intervention in Dangerous and Non-dangerous Emergencies,” Psych Bull 137 (2011): 517. 37. B. Pawlowski et al., “Sex Differences

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The Choice Factory: 25 Behavioural Biases That Influence What We Buy

by Richard Shotton · 12 Feb 2018 · 184pp · 46,395 words

say they proved that the broader an appeal for help, the less likely any individual is to intervene. They termed this diffusion of responsibility the bystander effect, although it’s sometimes referred to as the Genovese syndrome. A practical application It struck me that these findings related to a problem I was

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these campaigns weren’t generating as many donations as hoped. If the psychologists were right, then the NHS’s broad appeals were suffering from the bystander effect. Perhaps it would be more effective to run specific appeals? Fortunately, the creative agency team working on the campaign were open to suggestions. The team

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less room for deceit. 3. Charitable campaigns particularly benefit from localisation Localisation may be of particular benefit to the charity sector, which suffers from the bystander effect – the idea that mass appeals for help suffer from a diffusion of responsibility. The effect was first studied in the late 1960s by two psychologists

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38) witnesses intervened. It was a brutal incident – but some good came from it. It inspired Latané and Darley to begin their research into the bystander effect and it even kick-started the establishment of a single number, 911, for calling the police. But you may be surprised to learn that these

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Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019

to every company activity—from the smallest task to the largest company objective. The DRI concept helps avoid diffusion of responsibility, also known as the bystander effect, where people fail to take responsibility for something when they are in a group, because they think someone else will take on that responsibility. In

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the responsibility diffuses across all the members of the group instead of being concentrated in one person who is held accountable. You can see the bystander effect in many situations, including when people need help in an emergency. In a famous 1968 study, “Bystander Intervention in Emergencies: Diffusion of Responsibility,” John Darley

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