According to the bystander effect, the number of people who are around when an emergency occurs is positively correlated with the time it takes someone to provide help in an emergency.
What is bystander effect?
- The bystander effect states that when an emergency situation arises, witnesses are more likely to act if there are few or no other witnesses. Researchers Bibb Latané and John Darley discovered in a series of well-known studies that the number of other observers in the room has an effect on how long it takes a participant to act and ask for assistance.
- In one study, subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment scenarios: a room alone, a group of two participants, or a group of two confederates posing as regular subjects. Smoke started to enter the room as the participants sat filling out questionnaires. 75% of participants who were left alone reported the smoke to the researchers. Comparatively, only 38% of individuals in a room.
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