Man attacked on city bus, nobody helps
It looks like they’re having fun. Five young men, riding a city bus down Las Vegas Boulevard, taking turns punching another passenger out of his wallet. In some frames of the surveillance video, their faces are frozen in roller coaster free-fall thrill, smiling as sweetly as swampland salesmen. In other frames, they’re throwing fits of fists, then shoving, then smiling again.
Several passen
More..gers watched the robbery happen. Not one intervened.
It’s a predictable outcome that illustrates a dark truth: The more people who witness a crime, the less likely any of them will help the victim.
You probably wouldn’t have lifted a finger either, by the way. At least that’s what the research suggests. Sorry to deflate that dreamy hero hallucination.
What did and didn’t happen on that CAT bus just after midnight July 26 is most comfortably dissected through the lens of certain psychological phenomena. First you have what’s called “diffusion of responsibility” — when multiple people observe a crime, individual witnesses assume someone else in the crowd will intervene. It’s a division of apathy: More people mean less individual responsibility.
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Added: Jun 22 2009 In: education
Recorded on: Jul 26 2007
By: AmericanPride1
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