Helping to overcome intervention inertia in bystander's dilemmas: Behavioral disinhibition can improve the greater good

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 873-878

  van den Bos, Kees ^a   Müller, Patrick A ^a   van Bussel, Anke A L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral disinhibition; Behavioral interventions; Bystander effect; Greater good

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650708289     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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