Psychology
The Bystander Effect: Experiments, Mechanisms, and Limits
Understand what bystander experiments measured, how a meta-analysis qualifies the effect, and why individual helping differs from help at an incident.
Kitty Genovese
3 articles tagged with #Kitty Genovese
Experiments
The Bystander Effect: Kitty Genovese and the Psychology of Inaction
The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese launched a landmark psychology experiment. Here's what Darley and Latané actually found — and why the original story was wrong.
Science
Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect: Revisiting the Story
Examine archival research on the 38-witness narrative, distinguish historical records from experiments, and learn how to evaluate a corrected account.