The Responsive Bystander: How Social Group Membership and Group Size Can Encourage as Well as Inhibit Bystander Intervention

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1429-1439

  Levine, Mark ^a   Crowther, Simon ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bystanders; group size; helping; identity; social groups

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 57949115667     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012634     Document Type: Article

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