Bystander effect
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The Caped Crusader
The author recounts how a teenager in India tried to rescue a stranger from a 2008 suicide livestream when no one else acted, uses it to discuss the bystander effect,…
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Uma and Maya face an uncaring world
A note on a UK television experiment in which two young sisters stood lost in a shopping centre and 616 of 617 passers-by ignored them, with the poster’s advice to…
