Piliavin 1969

Question 1

What is the sample?

Answer 1

Around 4,450 people

Around 45% black and 55% white

Question 2

What is the research design?

Answer 2

Independent measures design

Question 3

What is the procedure?

Answer 3

Four confederates enacted the emergency situation
-drunk
-cane
Victim (both races) would fall over in the critical area and the model would either intervene early (after 70 sec) or late (after 150 sec) but it a passenger helped the model didn’t intervene. Observers recorded how long before help, no of helpers, gender, race, and comments

Question 4

What are 2 findings?

Answer 4

1) 90% of the 1st helpers were male

2) people took longer to help the drunk victim (5sec for cane, 109sec for drunk)

Question 5

What is 1 conclusion?

Answer 5

People are more likely to help someone who is not responsible for the situation

Question 6

What research method is used?

Answer 6

Field experiment

Question 7

How does it relate to the key theme ‘response to people in need’?

Answer 7

• Suggests that the likelihood of being helped in an emergency does not have to be reduced to number of witnesses

Question 8

How does it relate to the social area?

Answer 8

Investigating the impact other people have on our behaviour