Piliavin

Question 1

What is diffusion of responsibility?

Answer 1

The more people in a situation, the less likely you are to help as responsibility is shared.

Question 2

What is Altruism ?

Answer 2

When you help someone without personal gain

Question 3

What is Pluralistic Ignorance?

Answer 3

The tendency for people in a group to mislead each other about an emergency situation.

Question 4

Total number of particiapnts

Answer 4

4450 over 2 months

Question 5

How many ps on average in critical area?

Answer 5

8.5

Question 6

How many on average in whole carriage ?

Answer 6

43

Question 7

what streets was the study conducted?

Answer 7

59th and 125th street

Question 8

How far into journey did victim collapse?

Answer 8

70 seconds

Question 9

What time in the day was the study conducted?

Answer 9

11am to 3pm

Question 10

How mant trials per day?

Answer 10

6-8 trails

Question 11

How many drunk trails were conducted?

Answer 11

38

Question 12

How many cane trials were conducted?

Answer 12

65

Question 13

How many drunk victims received spontaneous help?

Answer 13

50 %

Question 14

How many cane victims received spontaneous help?

Answer 14

95%

Question 15

What happened before the collapse?

Answer 15

Confederates boarded train using different doors.
Female observers sat in adjacent area
Male model and victim went to critical area.
Victim always stood next to pole

Question 16

What happened during the collapse?

Answer 16

Approx 70 seconds into journey victim staggered forward and collapsed.
Victim would lie on floor and look at ceiling
If victim received no help by the time the train stopped, the model would help him to his feet

Question 17

What happened after the collapse?

Answer 17

Team got off the train and waited separately until the bystanders left the station.
They then went to another platform to go back the other way.

Question 18

Why would the confederates pick a 7.5 minute train journey?

Answer 18

So bystanders were a captive audience

Question 19

What were the 5 conditions?

Answer 19

Critical area early 
Critical area late 
adjacent area early 
adjacent area late 
no model

Question 20

What was the drunk condition?

Answer 20

smelt of alcohol, had a brown paper bag around a bottle

Question 21

What was the cane condition?

Answer 21

had a black cane

Question 22

Why were there fewer drunk trials?

Answer 22

Because confederates didn’t like playing the drunk condition.

Question 23

What was the result of the gender?

Answer 23

90% of the first helpers were male.

Question 24

What was the result on race?

Answer 24

White bystanders more helpful than black

Black victims received less help, less quickly

Question 25

What was the result on early and late models?

Answer 25

Early models received more help than late models

Area had no effect on help received (critical or adjacent)

Question 26

What was the result of diffusion of responsibility?

Answer 26

This wasn’t found- the larger the group size, the more likely people would help. This could be because bystanders couldn’t escape or walk away, so they may as well.

Question 27

What are some of the comments?

Answer 27

Its for men to help

You feel so bad, when you dot know what to do.

Question 28

What were pilliavins IVs ?

Answer 28

Type of victim
the race of victim
the presence of the model
the number as bystander

Question 29

What were the DVs ?

Answer 29

Time taken for first passenger to offer help
The total number of passengers who helped
The gender, race and location of every helper
Time taken for the first passenger to offer help after model had assisted.

Question 30

What was the aim of pilliavin?

Answer 30

To investigate in a natural setting the factors that may influence bystander behaviour e.g. race

Question 31

What are two ethical issues of pilliavin?

Answer 31

Consent

Deception