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Personal Narrative: My Joining The Innocent Bystander Effect

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I believe a situation in which I probably joined the innocent bystander effect was when I was in middle school in one of my classes. We were tasked with an assignment, more specifically a group project. Quite frankly, back then I wasn’t very good at socializing or doing groups projects, therefore I would basically do my part of assignment by myself as if I wasn’t even assigned to a group. In addition, one of the kids that was in my group inquired me about a part he was not comprehending very well, and I somewhat “muted” my empathy towards her. I think this was mostly because kids used to do that to me, they would sometimes even pretend like they didn’t even hear me. I think that if I would have behaved in a more altruistic way towards her,

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