Alexander on X: "A cross-national study on the bystander effect, looking at actual behavior recorded on CCTV. Do people intervene to help strangers in public? Yes, almost always (90% of the time) Further, they are even more likely to intervene when the situation is dangerous! (Study 2 below) https://t.co/l0M0xALjBw" / X

A cross-national study on the bystander effect, looking at actual behavior recorded on CCTV. Do people intervene to help strangers in public? Yes, almost always (90% of the time) Further, they are even more likely to intervene when the situation is dangerous! (Study 2 below) Bystanders were also more likely to intervene when more, rather than fewer, people were present. This calls 50 years of “bystander effect” research into question, as well as popular narratives that most people won’t step in to help a stranger who is in trouble.

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Sean X. Luo MD PhD

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Oct 23

Basically not a single one of the social psychology phenomenon is replicable. Can you even think of one?

What impact did the sex of the stranger have on the likelihood of intervention, I wonder?

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Uniting the Experience of Emergency Services

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Is it possible that educating the public about the bystander effect may have mitigated it?

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Would love to see this in more detail, what kind of incidents we're talking about, etc. It also strikes me that Ring Doorbells probably capture a fairly representative swath of interpersonal arguments that social scientists would love to study.

Relevant to recent poasts *and* all social science seems to be is just-so stories & outright fraud. Links to the studies researchgate.net/publication/35

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Would I be helped? Cross-national CCTV footage shows that intervention is the norm in public...

Half a century of research on bystander behavior concludes that individuals are less likely to intervene during an emergency when in the presence of others than when alone. By contrast, little is...

Alexander: makes a claim about trends Also alexander: pretends to not understand how data science works by backing his claim with point data

Intuitively makes sense. I would be hesitant to help a "distressed" stranger when no one else was around because it could be a ploy or a con. Way more likely when other people are there to back me up if something happens.

I propose the Alternative Bystander Effect - when there are enough people helping, others don’t feel the need to.

I'm going to have to update some lectures.

90% of times someone responds, or 90% of people? Also, seems like more crowded situations have a larger pool of interveners. What can this tell us about individual behavior?

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Where there any gender differences?

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Prior To Being On The Ground

@ChucklesMartel

Oct 23

Despite women, Dems & wokesters consistently & aggressively punishing protectors & voting for politicians who punish protectors! Good men's benevolence cannot be stopped

Does cross–national include the US? And include red states with zero gun legislation? In a state like Florida with open carry I’m going to assume everybody has a gun and I would be VERY hesitant to intervene. But I live in Massachusetts with good gun laws and I would intervene.

Ride the public transit with me in SoCal and see how many people jump in to help you when the unhinged lunatic starts screaming at you

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