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Being an Active Bystander
“…DID THEY REALLY JUST SAY THAT?!” BEING AN ACTIVE BYSTANDER Lena Tenney, MPA, MEd. | Researcher & Facilitation Specialist The Ohio State University | August 29, 2017 YOU ARE NOT ALONE! • In the last 2 months, have you experienced or observed a comment that made you uncomfortable or was inappropriate? – 62% yes – 38% no • Did anyone intervene? – 20% yes – 70% no YOU ARE NOT ALONE! • If you chose not to intervene, please select why: – 11% fear for safety – 6% fear of judgement – 46% did not know what to do or say – 31% did not feel comfortable intervening Outcomes for Student all students engagement NCLUSIVE I NVIRONMENTS OF E Innovation in Cognitive problem complexity in solving in problem team ENEFITS solving environments B EARNING L Milem and Hakuta, 2000; Gurin et al., 2002; Hurtado et al., 2003; Milem, 2003; Antonio et al., 2004; Page, 2007; Page, 2010 GOALS FOR THIS SESSION • Gain an understanding of the bystander effect and what it means to be an active bystander • Illustrate the importance and benefits of committing to being an active bystander • Learn how to effectively communicate in challenging situations through strategies that can be tailored to the particular situation • Practice being an active bystander ABOUT THE KIRWAN INSTITUTE Rigorous & Robust Applied Community Research Engagement Image Credit WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN ACTIVE BYSTANDER? THE BYSTANDER EFFECT • Diffusion of responsibility – The more people who are present, the less likely that someone will take action during a situation • Social influence – Groups monitor behavior, individuals don’t want to violate norms Darley, J.M., Latane, B. (1968). -
Social Loafing: a Review of the Literature
Social Loafing: A Review of the Literature Ashley Simms Texas Wesleyan University Tommy Nichols Texas Wesleyan University Social loafing is a phenomenon that has been discussed and researched since 1913. Though it has been long examined, recent technological developments offer ample opportunity for further study. This paper summarizes its long history of research and offers several propositions for future research. INTRODUCTION In 1913 a phenomenon was found that, at the time, did not receive sufficient attention. Maximilien Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer, observed that when a group of people collectively pulled on a rope, the output was less than when group members individually pulled on the rope (Kravitz and Martin, 1986; Ringelmann, 1913). The results of this finding were not considered further until 1974 when Ingham, Levinger, Graves, and Peckham recreated the experiment. The term “social loafing” was coined for the discovery that participants working in groups exert less effort than participants working individually. It was described as having a detrimental effect on individuals and the institutions associated with them (Latane, Williams, & Harkins, 1979). From there, the research evolved into five distinct categories: 1) establishing the existence of social loafing in both physical and cognitive group projects, 2) causes and deterrents of social loafing, 3) partner adaptation to group member social loafing (such as the “Sucker Effect”), 4) social loafing as a positive mechanism, and finally 5) social loafing in modern technology. ESTABLISHING SOCIAL LOAFING EXISTS The origins of social loafing begin with “The Ringelmann Effect,” which describes the tendency for individuals to lower their productivity when in a group (Ringlemann, 1913); Ingham, Levinger, Graves and Peckham relabeled this effect “social loafing” when they were successful in demonstrating individual effort declines in a curvilinear fashion when people work as a group or only believe they are working in a group (Ingham, Levinger, Graves, & Peckham, 1974). -
Imgur Group Identification and Deindividuation
UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara Previously Published Works Title 100 million strong: A case study of group identification and deindividuation on Imgur.com Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41c212xc Journal NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, 18(11) ISSN 1461-4448 Authors Mikal, Jude P Rice, Ronald E Kent, Robert G et al. Publication Date 2016-12-01 DOI 10.1177/1461444815588766 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Group Identification and Deindividuation on Imgur.com, p-1 Mikal, J. P., Rice, R. E., Kent, R. G., & Uchino, B. N. (2016). 100 million strong: A case study of group identification and deindividuation on Imgur.com. New Media & Society, 18(11), 2485- 2506. doi:10.1177/1461444815588766 [Note: There may be some small differences between this submitted manuscript version and the published version cited above.] 100 million strong: A case study of group identification and deindividuation on Imgur.com Abstract Online groups can become communities, developing group identification and fostering deindividuation. But is this possible for very large, anonymous groups with low barriers to entry, highly constrained formats, and great diversity of content? Applying social identity theory, and social identification and deindividuation effects theory, this study assesses influences on group identification and deindividuation in the case of the online site Imgur.com. Respondents reported slightly positive levels of the three forms of group identification, but mixed levels of two forms of deindividuation. As argued by proponents of computer-mediated communication, demographics play only a minor role on these outcomes. More involved usage, such as direct access and commenting on images, but not posting original content, is more associated with these outcomes, while more basic usage, such as total hours and reading comments, has little influence. -
Aversive Racism and the Responsibility of Bystanders Audrey J
The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: https://www.emerald.com/insight/2040-7149.htm Aversive Why someone did not stop them? racism Aversive racism and the responsibility of bystanders Audrey J. Murrell College of Business Administration, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Received 8 July 2020 Revised 31 July 2020 Accepted 2 August 2020 Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the impact of persistent racial bias, discrimination and racial violence is facilitated by otherwise well-intentioned individuals who fail to act or intercede. Utilizing the aversive racism framework, the need to move beyond awareness raising to facilitate behavioral changes is discussed. Examining the unique lens provided by the aversive racism framework and existing research, the bystander effect provides important insights on recent acts of racial violence such as the murder of Mr. George Floyd. Some promise is shown by the work on effective bystander behavior training and highlights the need for shared responsibility in preventing the outcomes of racial violence and discrimination to create meaningful and long-lasting social change. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses literature based on the aversive racism framework together with the literature on the bystander effect to understand the factors, conditions and consequences for lack of intervention when the victim is African American. This paper also provides evidence and theory-based recommendations for strategies to change passive bystanders into active allies. Findings – The use of the aversive racism framework provides a powerful lens to help explain the inconsistencies in the bystander effect based on the race of the victim. -
A Comprehensive Study About the Bystander Effect
Volume 10 Issue 1 (2021) Why People Stand By: A Comprehensive Study About the Bystander Effect Nitya Ganti1,2 and Sori Baek2 1Basis Independent Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, USA 2Horizon Academics, Jersey City, NJ, USA ABSTRACT Bystander effect is the phenomenon that describes how, when more people are around, each individual is less likely to intervene. While the bystander effect is an integral part of studying social behaviors and group thinking, the many caveats it presents itself with must be considered. Every situation differs based on location, people, and circumstance, so the idea of the bystander effect is not valid in every scenario, as evidenced by the various counterexamples and contradictory findings researchers have discovered. However, the bystander effect is still very important to study because understanding what encourages/prevents people from helping is critical to decrease the effect of the bystander effect to promote helping behavior. In this paper, we discuss the various factors that affect the prevalence of the bystander effect: perceived physical and social harm to the helper, responsibility diffusion, and perceived helpfulness. Introduction In Queens, New York in 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered in front of 38 nearby-apartment dwellers (Geyer-Schulz, Ovelgönne, & Sonnenbichler, 2010). Though facts are disputed, it is largely agreed that the first person to call the police as they witnessed this gruesome attack did so over 45 minutes after the incident began. By then, Kitty was already dead. The question of why or how these events could have happened is a timeless one. With so many witnesses, how could such a brutal criminal act go unreported? The answer lies in three words: the bystander effect. -
The Human Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Impulse, and Chaos
nebraska symposium on motivation 1969 The Human Choice: WILLIAM J. ARNOLD and DAVID LEVINE, Editors Individuation, Reason, and Order versus Deindividuation, Dalbir Bindra Professor of Psychology- McGill b'liiversily Impulse, and Chaos Professor of Psychology Edward L. Wike PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO University of Kansas Stanjord University Roger W. Black Professor of Psychology University oj South Carolina Omtrol. That’s what current psychology is all about. The use ol powerful schedules of reinforcement, probing neurophysiological techniques, computer simulation, and the new behavior therapies Elliot Aronson Professor of Psychology University of Texas at Austin (among other advances) enable psychologists to manipulate the responses of a wide range of research subjects in order to improve learning and discrimination; to arouse, rechannel, and satisfy Stuart W. Cook Professor of Psyi hology drives; and to redirect abnormal or deviant behavior. It has, in fact, Univernty of Colorado become the all-consuming task of most psychologists to learn how to bring behavior under stimulus control. Philip G. Zimbardo Prolessor of Psychology It is especially impressive to note (in any volume of the Nebraska Stanford University Symposium on Motivation) the relative case with which laboratory researchers can induce motives which have an immediate and often demonstrably pervasive effect on a vast array of response measures. On the other hand, one must reconcile this with the observation ’ that in the “real world” people often.show considerable tolerance university -
Social Psychology Is Its Study of Attitudes, Beliefs, Decisions, and Actions and the Way They Are Molded by Social Influence
10/7/2013 Social Influence The greatest contribution of social psychology is its study of attitudes, beliefs, decisions, and actions and the way they are molded by social influence. Module 36: Social Thinking and Social Influence © 2013 Worth Publishers Social Influence Cultural Influences Conformity . Culture, the behaviors and beliefs of a group, is shared What form of social influence is and passed on to others including the next generation the subject of this cartoon? of that group. Conformity refers to adjusting our behavior or thinking to fit in with a group standard. This sharing of traditions, values, and ideas is a form of social influence that helps maintain the culture. Norms are the rules, often unspoken but commonly understood, that guide behavior in a culture. Cultures change over time; norms for marriage and divorce have changed in Western culture. Social Influence Mimicry Automatic Mimicry It is not only Some of our mimicry of other people is not by choice, but true that automatic: birds of a . Chameleon Effect: unintentionally mirroring the body feather flock together: it is position and mood of others around us, leading to also true that contagious yawning, contagious arm folding, hand if we flock wringing, face rubbing… together, we might choose . Unconsciously mimicking others helps us to feel what to wear the they’re feeling. Automatic mimicry is part of empathy. same . Those who are eager to fit in are more prone to feathers. automatic mimicry. http://youtu.be/zVaknBrb-fQ 1 10/7/2013 Conformity Social Influence: Conformity Responding to Social Norms What makes you more likely to When we are with other people and perceive a social norm (a “correct” conform? or “normal” way to behave or think in this group), our behavior may follow the norm rather than following our own judgment. -
From Slave Ship to Supermax
Introduction Antipanoptic Expressivity and the New Neo-Slave Novel As a slave, the social phenomenon that engages my whole con- sciousness is, of course, revolution. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity. I’ve lived with repression every moment of my life, a re- pression so formidable that any movement on my part can only bring relief, the respite of a small victory or the release of death.1 xactly 140 years after Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in southeastern Virginia, the U.S. carceral state attempted to silence another influential EBlack captive revolutionary: the imprisoned intellectual George Jackson. When guards at California’s San Quentin Prison shot Jackson to death on August 21, 1971, allegedly for attempting an escape, the acclaimed novelist James Baldwin responded with a prescience that would linger in the African American literary imagination: “No Black person will ever believe that George Jackson died the way they tell us he did.”2 Baldwin had long been an advocate for Jackson, and Jackson—as evident from his identification with the slave in the block quotation above—had long been a critic of social control practices in the criminal justice system reminiscent of slavery. Jackson was a well-read Black freedom fighter, political prisoner, Black Panther Party field marshal, and radical social theorist who organized a prisoners’ liberation movement while serving an indeterminate sentence of one year to life for his presumed complicity in a seventy-dollar gas station robbery. He first exposed slavery’s vestiges in the penal system in Soledad Brother, the collection of prison letters 2 Introduction he published in 1970. -
Bystander Obligations at the Domestic and International Level Compared
Goettingen JournalBystander of International Obligations Law at 6 the (2014) Domestic 1, 47-79 and International Level 47 Bystander Obligations at the Domestic and International Level Compared Otto Spijkers* Table of Contents A. Introduction ...........................................................................................49 B. Comparing International and Domestic Bystanders ...............................51 I. Framing the Question ........................................................................51 II. Comparing the Domestic and International Legal Order ................................................................................................ 54 C. When Bystander Intervention is Legally Required ..................................59 I. Bystander Obligations at the National Level .......................................59 II. Bystander Intervention at the International Level ...............................59 D. Raisons d’être of Making Bystander Intervention a Legal Obligation ....................................................................................62 I. Raisons d’être of Bystander Obligations at Domestic Level ..................62 II. Raisons d’être of Bystander Obligations at Inter-State Level ............... 64 E. Why Bystanders Generally Prefer not to Intervene .................................65 I. Reasons for Bystanders not to Intervene at Domestic Level ................65 II. Reasons for Bystanders not to Intervene at the International Level ........................................................................... -
The Global Bystander Effect: Moral Responsibility in Our Age of Ecological Crisis
Journal of Futures Studies 2020,Vol. 25(2) 61–76 DOI: 10.6531/JFS.202012_25(2).0008 Article The Global Bystander Effect: Moral Responsibility in Our Age of Ecological Crisis Jon Mills1,2,* 1Faculty, Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, New York, USA 2Emeritus Professor of Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Abstract We are facing a planetary ecological crisis due to global warming, despoliation of our natural resources, mass scale industrial pollution, desertification, deforestation, widespread collapse of ecosystems, and extreme climate change. World overpopulation is nearing a record tipping-point, where food and water scarcity will bring about more famine, drought, pestilence, and death. Global catastrophic hazards have escalated due to the environmental crisis, encroachment by man, destabilized markets, hegemonic politics, the ubiquitous dread of nuclear war, terrorism, infectious diseases, techno nihilism, and psychological self- interest driving everything from vain desire to the local economy and international relations, not to mention the anathema of evil, abuse, trauma, greed, and the psychopathology of everyday life. Our recalcitrant dependency on fossil fuel is gradually suffocating the planet. Greenhouse warming, climate catastrophes, and aberrant weather phenomena occur every day throughout the globe and yet we do very little to mitigate it, let alone reverse its course. Moreover, we have caused the Anthropocene. Despite the fact that we see the ruin with our own eyes and do practically nothing to mitigate the ecological crisis, world masses have adopted a global bystander effect, where denial and abnegation of social responsibility lie at its very core. -
From Empathy to Apathy: the Bystander Effect Revisited
CDPXXX10.1177/0963721417749653Hortensius, de GelderBystander Effect Revisited 749653research-article2018 ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Current Directions in Psychological Science From Empathy to Apathy: The Bystander 2018, Vol. 27(4) 249 –256 Effect Revisited © The Author(s) 2018 https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417749653Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0963721417749653 www.psychologicalscience.org/CDPS Ruud Hortensius1 and Beatrice de Gelder2,3 1Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow; 2Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University; and 3Department of Computer Science, University College London Abstract The bystander effect, the reduction in helping behavior in the presence of other people, has been explained predominantly by situational influences on decision making. Diverging from this view, we highlight recent evidence on the neural mechanisms and dispositional factors that determine apathy in bystanders. We put forward a new theoretical perspective that integrates emotional, motivational, and dispositional aspects. In the presence of other bystanders, personal distress is enhanced, and fixed action patterns of avoidance and freezing dominate. This new perspective suggests that bystander apathy results from a reflexive emotional reaction dependent on the personality of the bystander. Keywords bystander effect, helping behavior, empathy, sympathy, personal distress When people are asked whether -
Deindividuation Examples in History
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