final powerpoint soc 205 socialize this
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Socialize This
Would You Intervene?
Kitty Genoveses' Story
Objectives
• To observe if being by yourself versus being in a group influences your ability to help another person in a given situation
• To understand how diffusion of responsibility plays into everyday life
• To record if peoples responses were different as a result of the apparent social class of the “criminal” as seen by their clothing
Some of theories and themes that came up during our experiment were...
Bystander Effect Diffusion of Responsibility Profiling Social Rules
Group Dynamics
Our Experiments
Variables
Results
Physical Reaction
Verbal Reaction
Limited Reaction
No Reaction
Alone 1 XAlone 2 XAlone 3 (casual) XAlone 4 (casual) XGroup 1 XGroup 2 XGroup 3 (casual) XGroup 4 (casual) X
Casual Reactions
Physical Reaction
Verbal Reaction
No Reaction
Well Dressed Reactions
No Reaction
Limited Reaction
Verbal Reaction
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Graph 1
Graph 4
The relationship between the social theories and our experiment
Why the subjects intervened...
Analysis/Explanation of Results
Notes
Chekroun, P., & Brauer, M. (2002). The bystander effect and social control behavior:the effect of the presence of others on people’s reactions to norm violations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 853–867. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.126
Cherry, K. (n.d.). The Bystander Effect: What is the Bystander Effect? Retrieved from http://psychology.about.com/od/socialpsychology/a/bystandereffect.htm
Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike LicenseForsyth, Donelson R. 2010. Group Dynamics: Fifth
Edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.