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WHO WILL HELP YOU

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Who Will Help You

If you fell off a bike , or be run over by a car , who would help you Chances are there wouldn 't be anybody to help you . But don 't equate it with hostile people most of the not helping ' incidents are actually effects of people deciding whether or not to help . The time that should have devoted to helping were spent on contemplating to help or not

In the Moriarty study

, it was found out that commitment to the victims before the incident (s (e .g . burglary , murder ) will mostly determine whether or not people will you . Two experiments were conducted in the study . The first experiment was done in the Jones Beach , New York where cases of thefts were staged . The results showed that only 23 out of the 40 subjects who noticed the theft were responsive and tried to catch the thief . Meanwhile , the second experiment was done in two Automat eateries . The results showed that nine (56 ) out of the 16 subjects who noticed the theft was responsive to the robbery

The results of the two experiments showed that people who have had prior contact with the victim will usually respond . This prior commitment to the victim , if the need should arise , was termed as prior decision One of the reasons of helping is because they feel personally responsible , if only little . The second is that the subject appreciates the trust put in him by the victim . Another is because the subject may feel psychological dissonance if his /her overt behavior does not comply with his /her spoken statements . And the last reason is to avoid being blamed for letting the incident happen (Moriarty , 1975 ,

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In the experiment , nine out of the ten subjects looked at the stimulus person . In the no physical contact (NPC ) condition , only one subject out of the five did not look at the stimulus person while all the subjects in the direct physical contact (DPC ) condition looked . The one who did not look was a female . This might be due to several or a combination of reasons . One reason might be because there was no direct physical contact involved , the subject had no reason to look at stimulus generator

Except for the one who ignored the stimulus person , all other subjects helped . Everybody in the DPC condition helped the subjects while only one in the NPC condition did not help the subject . Six out of the ten subjects spoke to the stimulus generator . Only one out of the five DPC subjects did not speak to the stimulus person . In the NPC condition three out of the five subjects did not speak to the stimulus person as they were picking up the books . One of the reason for this was because the stimulus person was a female and the subject was also a...