Essays on The Bystander Effect

Few could deny the dominant role social media plays in today’s world. Although one might believe that our accessibility to various social media platforms has helped us reach and thereby stand up against injustices, several examples prove quite the opposite, demonstrating how people become online…

The Bystander Effect The idea of human suffering causes people to perform actions normally considered unthinkable. The Bystander Effect is a psychological phenomenon that is the reaction of viewing scenes of human suffering. People do not want to assist those suffering because their involvement may…

To be a bystander, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is to be a person who is standing near but not taking part in what is happening. With that definition everyone has been a bystander to something in his or her life. To be a bystander is…

In Psychology, the bystander effect is loosely defined as the inaction of persons who witness a horrific event because each person assumes that another will do something to help the victims. For instance, if a child is being bullied in full view of a group…