Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study

Traditional work on bystander intervention in violent emergencies has found that the larger the group, the less the chance that any individual will intervene. Here, we tested the impact on helping behavior of the affiliation of the bystanders with respect to the participants. We recruited 40 male su...

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Main Authors: Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, David Swapp, Claire Campbell, Jian J. Zhang, Mark Levine, Mel Slater
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-08-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211040076