How does being in a group affect bystander intervention? Discuss with examples from relevant studies.
Bystander impacts how people will react in a certain situation. I think it because our brain reaches maturity in a way that we should have priority first before anything else. For example, if an incident happened on a road, some people are going to the office or somewhere else, the hassle of helping it the number one thing to think. you will be held responsible. You second guess whether youre going to help or not but when you see people starting to help, youll think helping is good. Its like more like what monkeys see, monkeys does kind of effect. And also, being part of a big crowd, you automatically assume that there is someone who has already helped or is going to help that person. People just assume that someone else will do it and they dont feel guilty because no one specifically asked for their help. It is just a consequence of being part of the society and being selfish, even though it is bad
we need to understand that we need to change this kind of attitude. The bystander effect occurs when a person fails to render aid to a person when there are other people present, but if intervention is met the simplest thing to do is imagine yourself in that situation, wouldnt you want to be helped? there is no use leaning on bystander effect or bystander intervention for our indifference. Walking away is the easiest option but being human means standing up for each other and being there for each other. there are many experiments on that, although lately there are many that are fake. It is also known as bystander empathy. based on studies conducted by a professor. They were observing apes which near human behavior. In the confrontation of the two apes or silverback, most apes do not intervene but just watch instead. One other evidence is that when trouble arrives 40% of the time people will bail out/run or side with the enemy. important link Stress and Health: From Molecules to Societies Dr. Sapolsky.