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Ashley Parker

Dr. Kellner

ENGL 0099

30 November 2018

Why People Don’t Help

In “Why People Don’t Help in a Crisis” by John Darley and Bibb Latane was about

research being done to see why people react to a crisis the way that they do while in a group

versus the way they do by their self's. They found that there are three things that a passerby has

to do they have to notice that there is an emergency, interpret that it is an emergency, and finally

they have to decide if they have the responsibility to help. They also found that a single person

was more likely to notice that there was an emergency. In a group the people are more worried

about what everyone else is doing and how they are acting.
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Works Cited

Latané, Bibb, and John M. Darley. The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn't He Help?

Appleton-Century Crofts, New York, 197