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Bystander Effect
Someone Will Help
You will face the same kind of emergency a few times over. Each time, the only thing that changes is how many other people are standing around. Just decide, quickly, what you would do.
1Read each scene — someone is clearly in trouble.
2Choose to step in, or to assume someone else will.
3Afterward, see how the size of the crowd moved your choices.
The concept· Darley & Latane, 1968
Bystander Effect
The bystander effect is the tendency for people to be LESS likely to help in an emergency when others are present. The more onlookers there are, the more responsibility feels spread thin across the crowd.
In a packed station or a busy group chat, everyone quietly assumes someone else will act — so no one does. The very size of a crowd, which feels safe, can leave a person in trouble alone.