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...least one important respect, the findings of this study collide with the now classic report by John M. Darley of Princeton and Bibb Latane of Ohio State. Working under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, Darley and Latané found that a bystander is less likely to help in a group than when he is alone. A crowd, they concluded, tends to diffuse responsibility and makes it easier for the individual to do nothing. The Piliavins and Mrs. Rodin cautiously dispute this theory. They contend that under real-life conditions the average person-even in a group-will act when he clearly...
...call police when crimes occur before their eyes. Yet are such silent witnesses really as apathetic as social critics usually portray them? Perhaps not. In what the American Association for the Advancement of Science calls 1968's best sociopsychological research, Professors John M. Darley of Princeton and Bibb Latané of Ohio State portray homo urbanus in an entirely different light. Testing the reaction of college students to a feigned emergency, they found that the emotions of those who remained quiet hardly registered what could be called indifference. Often their hands trembled, their palms sweated. If anything, they were...
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