Piliavin Flashcards
What is diffusion of responsibility?
The more people in a situation, the less likely you are to help as responsibility is shared.
What is Altruism ?
When you help someone without personal gain
What is Pluralistic Ignorance?
The tendency for people in a group to mislead each other about an emergency situation.
Total number of particiapnts
4450 over 2 months
How many ps on average in critical area?
8.5
How many on average in whole carriage ?
43
what streets was the study conducted?
59th and 125th street
How far into journey did victim collapse?
70 seconds
What time in the day was the study conducted?
11am to 3pm
How mant trials per day?
6-8 trails
How many drunk trails were conducted?
38
How many cane trials were conducted?
65
How many drunk victims received spontaneous help?
50 %
How many cane victims received spontaneous help?
95%
What happened before the collapse?
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
What happened during the collapse?
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
What happened after the collapse?
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.
Why would the confederates pick a 7.5 minute train journey?
So bystanders were a captive audience
What were the 5 conditions?
Critical area early Critical area late adjacent area early adjacent area late no model
What was the drunk condition?
smelt of alcohol, had a brown paper bag around a bottle
What was the cane condition?
had a black cane
Why were there fewer drunk trials?
Because confederates didn’t like playing the drunk condition.
What was the result of the gender?
90% of the first helpers were male.
What was the result on race?
White bystanders more helpful than black
Black victims received less help, less quickly
What was the result on early and late models?
Early models received more help than late models
Area had no effect on help received (critical or adjacent)
What was the result of diffusion of responsibility?
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.
What are some of the comments?
Its for men to help
You feel so bad, when you dot know what to do.
What were pilliavins IVs ?
Type of victim
the race of victim
the presence of the model
the number as bystander
What were the DVs ?
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.
What was the aim of pilliavin?
To investigate in a natural setting the factors that may influence bystander behaviour e.g. race
What are two ethical issues of pilliavin?
Consent
Deception
