Bystander Effect Summary

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Plötner, M., Over, H., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children show the bystander effect in helping situations. Psychological Science, 26(4), 499-506. doi:10.1177/0956797615569579

1. The more individuals help one another, the more benefits they will receive.
2. An individual is less likely to help in the presence of others.
3. The researchers Darley and Latane introduce a five step way to help show individuals on what to do during a distress situations.
4. Studies wanted to focus on children’s helping behavior.
5. Children are believed to help less in the presence of others.
6. Studies shown that children are more likely to be helpful and be responsible in a group setting than alone.
7. The ideal image of the experiment
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The result of helping behavior showed that there was a different results between the bystander conditions, and the alone conditions.
24. Shown in the results, children often help in a situation when they are alone rather than ina group.
25. The number between the helping situations and bystander were similar.
26. The participants were able to notice the situation around them.
27. Children showed that they were aware that the experimenter needed help.
28. About 50% of children felt that they need to help in the alone conditions and about 50% children knew that they need to help because they were the one who caused it in the bystander-unavailable conditions.
29. Researchers explained that about 47% of children were not aware of the situation.
30. The manipulation distraction helped the hypothesis.
31. Researchers were able to figure out that children are more likely to help during a situation when they are alone.
32. Based on the results that were presented, there should be future studies on the idea of watching and not helping in a bystander.
33. Researchers believe that there should be future studies on the fact of lowering the presence of others to help increase the helping