AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -bystander effect, the inhibiting influence of the presence of others on a person’s willingness to help someone in need . Research has shown that, even in an emergency, a bystander is less likely to extend help when he or she is in the real or imagined presence of others than when he or she is alone.

Detailed explanation-2: -In which situation is bystander apathy LEAST likely to occur? peer rejection.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to a social psychological phenomenon known as the bystander effect, people do not intervene in emergencies because of a diffusion of responsibility. In fact, likelihood of help is inversely proportional to the number of bystanders (1).

Detailed explanation-4: -The term bystander effect refers to this phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress.

Detailed explanation-5: -The most frequently cited real-life example of the bystander effect regards a young woman called Kitty Genovese, who was murdered in Queens, New York, in 1964, while several of her neighbors looked on. No one intervened until it was too late.