bystander behaviour, anti-social behaviour, social identity theory
There is a long history of public concern about the behaviour of bystanders — from the behaviour of ordinary Germans during the Holocaust, to the iconic case of the bystanders at the Kitty Genovese murder, to contemporary anxiety about bystanders of cyberbullying. In all of these, there is an overwhelming sense that bystanders fail to act appropriately. Part of this concern is fuelled by the work in social psychology on the bystander effect.
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