bystander behaviour, diffusion of responsibility, arousal: cost/reward model
My husband, the late Irving Piliavin, was a professor of social work at the University of California-Berkeley at the time of the study. He had taken a year off to study social psychology with Bibb Latané at Columbia University in New York City. Latané, along with John Darley, was at the time doing his ground-breaking research in which they had discovered the phenomenon of ‘diffusion of responsibility’ in situations in which an emergency is observed.
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