Diffusion of Responsibility

When people don't feel they need to help because there are others around.

• Diffusion of responsibility
• Bystanderism
• Prosocial behaviour
• Misinformation effect

When one or more individuals don't help someone in need.

• Diffusion of responsibility
• Bystanderism
• Prosocial behaviour
• Misinformation effect

Levine found in US cities that helping behaviour starts to decline at what population size?

• 100,000
• 300,000
• 1,000,000
• 10,000,000

How many studies were in Steblay's meta-analysis of prosocial behaviour?

• 1
• 10
• 65
• 150

Steblay's meta-analysis found there was evidence to support the hypothesis that someone was more likely to receive help in a..

• Rural environment
• Urban environment

In Darley and Latane's smoky room study, what % of people helped after two minutes when there were three naive participants?

• 0%
• 12%
• 25%
• 100%

In Darley and Latane's smoky room study, what % of people helped after two minutes when they were alone?

• 0%
• 25%
• 50%
• 100%

Looking for others for guidance on how to act in situations of ambiguity is called...

• Normative social influence
• Descriptive social norm
• Informational social influence
• Conformity