Here's what happened to Kitty Genovese in 1964, including how many witnesses there were to her murder and how it led to ...

The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime.The greater the ...

Imagine that you're walking down the street when you see someone fall down on the sidewalk. You glance around, expecting that someone will help the other person up, but not one seems to be reacting.

This activity uses a real-life example to explore the bystander effect, looking at what happens when people don't stop to help in an emergency. In Germany, three people were fined for failing to help ...

Several factors influence how we respond, contributing to the phenomenon known as the “bystander effect”. Brooke Kinsella, whose brother Ben was fatally stabbed in 2008, has been trying to ...

The infamous murder launched decades of studies investigating the “bystander effect,” where a diffusion of responsibility and fear of risk leads to inaction on the part of people who may be ...