Azuran wrote...
Good ol' Bystander effect strikes again! Man, I love psychological cases like this one. I also wrote an essay on Kitty Genovese a few weeks ago. Weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Yep. Bystander effect it is.
I still remember back in college in Psychology class where we spent a week intensely discussing and debating about this one.
But it still bothered me that there was that guy who went to the dying guy on the sidewalk, checked him out, lifted him by the shoulder, and then walked away... what the? One even took a camera shot at the poor guy. I don't think those qualifies anymore in the bystander effect boundaries. Or maybe we're seeing a more evolved, modern form of bystander effect that should have a few psychologists updating their books about it.