Fall Of Passers Analysis

As children we’re taught that we should help others in need, the golden rule, but also that we should mind our own business so really growing up we learn two contradicting beliefs, this makes us question, are we supposed to help those in need or mind our own

Chapter 3 of the book Superfreakonommics published in 2009, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner discusses about apathetic nature of human beings. The author starts off with the story of Mrs. Genovese who was sexually assaulted, stabbed and left to die by Mr. Moseley while having 38 witnesses. When police interviewed the witnesses, they used a variety of excuses like “We thought it was a lovers’ quarrel.” The author says that this incident took place when the crime rate in US were high because of various reasons like population explosion, expansion of civil rights and strangely, the introduction of television. The author includes some statistics to prove his claim but comes back saying that none of this proves why no one stepped in to help

Social psychology first examined the phenomena later termed “bystander effect” in response to a 1964 murder. The murder of a young woman with as many as 38 witnesses and none who helped until it was too late. The bystander effect is individuals seeing an emergency situation but not helping. There are many reasons why individuals do not respond: diffusion of responsibility, not noticing or unsure if it is an emergency, and not wanting to be liable if the person still dies are a few.

The victims of the indifference of others are

Us, humans, are supposed to be there for eachother. If we see something happening that is bad and that we can stop without nothing happening, it shouldn’t be a problem to solve it. But this society, is very different. We need to realize that we live in a world with people who are very selfish so we shouldn’t based on an idea if everyone is not with

To read like historian there so many circumstances especially now where we have access to the Internet and television now we have more ability to get informed so they're more opinion and more question who wrote for example context article, newspaper or letter from the time of the event that lead to a topic.

While tragedies like this have continued to occur, indifference makes others look away from situations and act indifferent instead of trying to resist and fight against the inhumane horrors.

Does it ever feel like you are reliving the same day? In Before I fall by Lauren Oliver, Samantha Kingston deals with a conflicting issue of reliving the same day seven times. While it may seem hard to relate to that issue, I believe that almost everyone goes through a similar feeling. During the duration of the novel, Sam deals with emotions of anger, depression, guilt, and then finally acceptance.

In Auden’s Musee des Beaux Arts, it says how a person will continue doing what they are doing. For example, a person will continue “eating or opening a window or just walking dully along” when around them there may be something that is ignored or put in a corner like a dirty dog that they don't want to help clean. The thinking is not that people don't care its just that they don't see an opportunity to help.

Dana (a pseudonym), an obliging woman, lost her faith in human nature after she was dying in a Whangamata street without any help. Last month, she had a serious stomachache and called an ambulance. During her waiting, she was too painful to move and cracked on the pavement. However, passerby just walked past and even made scornful comments. Nobody helped her. Fortunately, a kind woman finally stopped and kept accompany Dana until the ambulance arrived. For this encounter, Dana hopes that people could give a hand when they meet someone looks sick.

forget the lives that were given. Others feel the need to stand up and do something

Bystander awareness is very important to our society. It is meaningful because everyone can get in a trouble and one day everyone need help. What will happen to our society if all people become indifferent to each other? New generations now are hard heated and nobody wants to risk themselves for the sake of strangers. But on the other side, it is a good point, because unreasonable risk can badly affect on you.

From my point of view, this phenomenon may result from distrust among person and it is also a crisis of confidence of society.For one thing, there is an increasing number of those who make full use of others' kindness to get dishonest benefits.A case in point is that some sympathy people helped the collapsed person, while

Social and cultural pressures, as well as beliefs about the self will influence helping behaviors. In an emergency, both informational and normative social influences are impacting whether an individual helps another. People look for queues from others in order to determine if the current situation requires action to be taken. Also, people will do things simply to be accepted by the group (Aronson et al., 2013). In any

Bystanders can easily found in real life such as, they can be found in the places like at work, school, on the roads, and other places involving many people. These circumstances aren’t simply ignoring the situation, but their unconscious psychology plays a big role in how they react to an emergency. In this situation, people think someone else can provide help, so that, this results in people remain as the spectators. This phenomenon is called bystander effect, and this is if more witnesses are in an emergency event, the less people are likely to intervene. This bystander effect is often called as, Genovese Syndrome which is named after death of Kitty Genovese, who was murdered in 1964 while a lot of witnesses were in the same place. After this incident, many psychologists conducted many investigations and experiments on this topic in order to analyze bystanders’ psychology in encountering certain situations. However, a lot of research papers focused on the phenomenon itself, rather than talking about how the one on one situation or one to plural number of people can result differently, and how age, gender, and relationship affects psychology of bystanders associating to the topic. Therefore, this paper will explain how the group size and group type affects bystander effect throughout researches and conducting my own survey. Hopefully, this paper can provide the future scope in encouraging the people’s behaviors in encountering the emergency circumstances.