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Piliavin 1969
- Method
- Field Experiment
- conducted in a train station on the
subway weekdays 11am-3pm
- conducted in a train station on the
subway weekdays 11am-3pm
- IVs: The race and type of victim
(drunk or ill), presence of
models and no. of bystanders.
- DVs: Speed and
frequency of help.
- Aim: To investigate the effect on
helping behaviour of the type of
victim (drunk or respectable) and
the race (black or white).
- Field Experiment
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- high ecological validity in a
real-life environment
- no demand characteristics
- no demand characteristics
- large sample
- 4450 people- more generalisable
- 4450 people- more generalisable
- high ecological validity in a
real-life environment
- Weaknesses
- No informed consent,
deception and lack of
debriefing.
- chance of causing distress and
social and emotional harm.
- chance of causing distress and
social and emotional harm.
- field experiment
with low controls
- No informed consent,
deception and lack of
debriefing.
- Strengths
- Results
- 90% of helpers were
male.
- Slight
'same-race'
effect.
- Black victims received
less help less quickly.
- cane victim received
spontaneous help 95% of
the time.
- cane victim was helped on
average within 5 seconds.
- drunk victim was helped on average after
109 seconds.
- drunk victim was spontaneously
helped 50% of the time.
- 90% of helpers were
male.
- Procedure
- 4 teams aged 24-29
- 4 students per team
- 2 female observers,
1 male confederate,
1 male victim
- 2 female observers,
1 male confederate,
1 male victim
- 4 students per team
- each trial lasted
7 1/2 minutes
- 70 seconds after the train
leaves, the victim collapses
- if no help is given,
confederate steps in after 70
or 150 seconds in both critical
and adjacent
- if no help is given,
confederate steps in after 70
or 150 seconds in both critical
and adjacent
- 70 seconds after the train
leaves, the victim collapses
- Triangulation- both qual and
quan data gathered
- length of time, amount of helpers, race,
gender, comments and location of
surrounding people
- e.g. "It's for men
to help him"
- e.g. "It's for men
to help him"
- length of time, amount of helpers, race,
gender, comments and location of
surrounding people
- 4 teams aged 24-29
- Background
- March 1964- Nurse
Kitty Genovese was
stabbed in New York
City at 3am.
- There were 38
witnesses who didn't
attempt to help her.
- Diffusion of responsibility- the idea that people are less likely to help someone
if there are others present, as they perceive responsibility as shared between
all present, and see themselves as being less personally responsible.
- Diffusion of responsibility- the idea that people are less likely to help someone
if there are others present, as they perceive responsibility as shared between
all present, and see themselves as being less personally responsible.
- March 1964- Nurse
Kitty Genovese was
stabbed in New York
City at 3am.
- Conclusions
- An emergency situation
arouses the attention of a
bystander
- people are more likely to help if they
feel physically close to the victim, for
example, the same race.
- no evidence for diffusion of responsibility- no more or
less likely to help when surrounded by others.
- no evidence for diffusion of responsibility- no more or
less likely to help when surrounded by others.
- people are more likely to help if they
feel physically close to the victim, for
example, the same race.
- An emergency situation
arouses the attention of a
bystander
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