How to Overcome the Bystander Effect
Psychologists have long been interested in exactly why and when we help other people. There has also been a tremendous amount of interest in the reasons why we sometimes don't help others. The bystander effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when people fail to help those in need due to the presence of other people. In many cases, people feel that since there are other people around, surely someone else will leap into action.1
More bystanders responding to CPR incidents thanks to 3 public health interventions: Study, Singapore News
SINGAPORE - A study has found that three measures, when applied together, have more than doubled the likelihood of bystanders performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on cardiac arrest victims in Singapore. Dispatch-assisted CPR, CPR and automated external defibrillator training, and the Singapore Civil Defence Force's myResponder app were found to have increased the responses of bystanders giving life-saving assistance to heart attack victims before paramedics attended to them. Dispatch-assisted CPR refers to CPR that is administered under the guidance of a first responder, such as a paramedic who may, through a phone call, assess the situation and give instructions to a bystander, who then performs CPR. The study was conducted by researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Duke University, and several organisations here, and published in August.
Bystander Intervention Resources
Bystander Intervention Training Hollaback! provides trainings on how to do your part to protect your neighbors and co-workers when bias and harassment collide in front of you. What’s worse than being targeted with harassment because of your race, sex, religion, color, gender, size, orientation, disability, age, or origin? Being targeted while surrounded by bystanders who see what is happening, but then do nothing. It doesn’t have to be that way.
(4a) Case study on Zhumadian article
Horrifying footage has emerged online showing a woman being hit by a taxi and left lying in the middle of a crossroad for more than two minutes - and is then run over a second time. Over 20 onlookers ignored the wounded pedestrian as they walked past her before an SUV ran her over for a second time, according to Daily Mail. She was killed after the second accident, said the police.
What type of bystander are you?
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How to Break the Bystander Effect
They could have left it to someone else. An Army veteran blocked a shooter in Oregon from entering his classroom. Three friends on a high-speed train from Paris to Amsterdam helped stop a gunman wielding an AK-47. This past spring, an Army captain in North Carolina pulled a couple to safety after a fiery car crash.
Man slashed & robbed at Tanglin Halt claims witnesses "did nothing to help" - Mothership.SG - News from Singapore, Asia and around the world
A 58-year-old man was recently arrested for his suspected involvement in a case of armed robbery. On Oct. 13, the suspect slashed another man with a fruit knife near Tanglin Halt Road, and managed to get away with the victim's mobile phone as well. The suspect was arrested on the same day and was subsequently charged in court two days after the incident.
"Intervene" Bystander Campaign
Project Description The Skorton Center for Health Initiatives at Cornell Health, in collaboration with the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble, has developed a new bystander intervention video and workshop called Intervene © 2016. What is Intervene? Intervene is both a video and a workshop: Video: The online 20-minute video Intervene includes brief filmed scenarios demonstrating ways in which student bystanders can successfully intervene in problematic situations. Seven different situations are addressed, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (emotional abuse), hazing, alcohol emergency, emotional distress, and bias.
