Socialize This

Would You Intervene?

Kitty Genoveses' Story

Objectives

• To observe if being by yourself versus being in a group influences your ability to help another person in a given situation

• To understand how diffusion of responsibility plays into everyday life

• To record if peoples responses were different as a result of the apparent social class of the “criminal” as seen by their clothing

Some of theories and themes that came up during our experiment were...

Bystander Effect          Diffusion of Responsibility                   Profiling                           Social Rules

Group Dynamics

Our Experiments

Variables

Results

Physical Reaction

Verbal Reaction

Limited Reaction

No Reaction

Alone 1 XAlone 2 XAlone 3 (casual) XAlone 4 (casual) XGroup 1 XGroup 2 XGroup 3 (casual) XGroup 4 (casual) X

Casual Reactions

Physical Reaction

Verbal Reaction

No Reaction

Well Dressed Reactions

No Reaction

Limited Reaction

Verbal Reaction

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Graph 3

Graph 1

Graph 4

The relationship between the social theories and our experiment

Why the subjects intervened...

Analysis/Explanation of Results

Notes

Chekroun, P., & Brauer, M. (2002). The bystander effect and social control behavior:the effect of the presence of others on people’s reactions to norm violations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 853–867. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.126

Cherry, K. (n.d.). The Bystander Effect: What is the Bystander Effect? Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsychology/a/bystandereffect.htm

Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike LicenseForsyth, Donelson R. 2010. Group Dynamics: Fifth

Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.