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Group cohesiveness, social norms, and bystander intervention (1983)
| Venue: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |
| Citations: | 17 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Rutkowski83groupcohesiveness,,
author = {Gregory K. Rutkowski and Charles L. Cruder and Daniel Romer},
title = {Group cohesiveness, social norms, and bystander intervention},
journal = {Journal of Personality and Social Psychology},
year = {1983},
pages = {545--552}
}
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Abstract
Previous research suggests that the larger a group of bystanders is, the less likely any one bystander is to offer a victim help in an emergency. Nearly all of this research has been conducted with unacquainted bystanders, and thus, an im-portant group characteristic, cohesiveness, may have been held at a low level. Study 1 found support for the hypothesis that group size inhibits helping in low-cohesive groups but facilitates helping in high-cohesive groups. Study 2 found support for the hypothesis that the effects of cohesiveness on bystander interven-tion depend on the salience of the social-responsibility norm: Cohesiveness fa-cilitated helping more when the social-responsibility norm was salient than when it was not. Thus * group cohesiveness is a theoretically critical variable for un-derstanding the bystander effect. The results of these experiments suggest that the effects of group and situation variables depend on the group's meaning to the individual. Latan £ and Darley (1970) conducted a se-ries of investigations to test the relation be-
Keyphrases
group cohesiveness social norm social-responsibility norm low-cohesive group bystander effect bystander interven-tion depend thus group cohesiveness situation variable high-cohesive group critical variable low level unacquainted bystander group size inhibits im-portant group victim help previous research
