If you saw someone being harassed or assaulted in a busy public place, what would you do? Psychologists have long explored that question with the bystander effect, "a phenomenon in which people fail ...

The most powerful evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Derek Chauvin was a video showing the then-Minneapolis police officer pinning a pleading George Floyd to the ground by kneeling on his ...

According to scientists, climate change is possibly the most urgent threat to our world today—it’s a glaring common enemy, with every living being on Earth a loser if we cannot beat it back. Yet ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- From coast to coast, Asian Americans are facing attacks like no other time in recent years. In Los Angeles alone, the LAPD is reporting a jump in anti-Asian crimes by 114% in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's a question many people have asked since seeing video of a Park Ranger being attacked in Love Park over the weekend - why didn't anyone help? KYW's Dan Wing spoke with a ...

I think Catherine A. Sanderson’s essay “When Police Fail to Act in a Crisis” (Review, July 30) misapplies the bystander effect, which shouldn’t apply to the police protecting children from an active ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR improved survival to hospital discharge. The ...

His new project The Bystander Effect, which he wrote and directed, is about being an active bystander to social injustice in the LGBTQ community. Paisley was inspired to write and direct the film ...

What do Covid-19 vaccination and the stabbing death of a woman outside of her New York City apartment have in common? The bystander effect. The bystander effect concept emerged after Catherine “Kitty” ...

This behavior is so common, in fact, that researchers have given it a name; they call it The Bystander Effect or Bystander Apathy. The term was coined by social psychologists, John Darley and Bibb ...

Rats will enthusiastically work to free a rat caught in a trap — and it turns out that they are especially eager to be a good Samaritan when they're in the company of other willing helpers. But that ...