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The Responsive Bystander: How Social Group Membership and Group Size can Encourage as well as Inhibit Bystander Intervention.
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@MISC{Levine_theresponsive,
author = {Mark Levine and Simon Crowther},
title = { The Responsive Bystander: How Social Group Membership and Group Size can Encourage as well as Inhibit Bystander Intervention.},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Four experiments explore the interaction of group size, social categorization and bystander behavior. In Study 1 increasing group size inhibits intervention in a street violence scenario when bystanders are strangers but encourages intervention when bystanders are friends. Study 2 replicates and extends these findings to social category members. When gender identity is salient, group size encourages intervention when bystanders and victim share social category membership. In addition, group size interacts with context specific norms that both inhibit and encourage helping. Study 3 uses physical co-presence and gender identities to examine these social category effects. Increasing group size of women produces greater helping of a female victim but increasing group size of men does not. Additionally, increasing numbers of outgroup bystanders results in less intervention from females but more intervention from males. Study 4 replicates these findings using a measure of “real life ” helping behavior. Taken together we argue that the bystander effect is not a generic consequence of increasing group size. When bystanders share group level
Keyphrases
group size inhibit bystander intervention social group membership responsive bystander gender identity bystander behavior group size interacts real life victim share social category membership social category member bystander effect female victim social category effect physical co-presence encourages intervention social categorization group size inhibits intervention street violence scenario outgroup bystander result generic consequence context specific norm woman produce bystander share group level
