Objective 12
Discuss the
factors that promote bystander apathy and de-individuation and how an
examination of moral development helps us understand individuals’ responses to
these factors.
Explanation:
Before a person decides to get involved in a situation they go through a decision making process for bystander intervention. There are three factors to bystander apathy. They are noticing the incident, interpreting the incident as an emergency, and assuming responsibility. They have to do all three things before they decide to help. Bystander empathy is the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to help if other bystanders are present. The best odds of us helping someone occur when the person needing help is similar to us or a woman, we just observed someone else being helpful, we aren't in a hurry, we are in a small town, we are feeling guilty, and we are in a good mood. De-individuation is the loss of one's identity in a group setting. They gain the social identity of the group. There are three factors that promote de-individuation. They are anonymity (I wont be found out), diffused responsibility (I am not responsible for my actions), and group size (a larger group increases the two factors above). Throughout a person’s moral development they learn right from wrong. Your moral development decides how you act as a bystander or how you act when you are in a group. The presence of others may cause people to forget their morals. Lots of things depend on how you grow up and your moral development.
Before a person decides to get involved in a situation they go through a decision making process for bystander intervention. There are three factors to bystander apathy. They are noticing the incident, interpreting the incident as an emergency, and assuming responsibility. They have to do all three things before they decide to help. Bystander empathy is the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to help if other bystanders are present. The best odds of us helping someone occur when the person needing help is similar to us or a woman, we just observed someone else being helpful, we aren't in a hurry, we are in a small town, we are feeling guilty, and we are in a good mood. De-individuation is the loss of one's identity in a group setting. They gain the social identity of the group. There are three factors that promote de-individuation. They are anonymity (I wont be found out), diffused responsibility (I am not responsible for my actions), and group size (a larger group increases the two factors above). Throughout a person’s moral development they learn right from wrong. Your moral development decides how you act as a bystander or how you act when you are in a group. The presence of others may cause people to forget their morals. Lots of things depend on how you grow up and your moral development.
Example:
This picture is a good example of the decision making process for bystander intervention. If people don't notice the incident, see it as an emergency, or assume responsibility, bystander apathy doesn't happen. They guy in the brown coat reminds me of the story my track coach puts in our packet every year. It is a story about anybody, somebody, nobody, and everybody. The jist of the story is that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done.
This picture is a good example of the decision making process for bystander intervention. If people don't notice the incident, see it as an emergency, or assume responsibility, bystander apathy doesn't happen. They guy in the brown coat reminds me of the story my track coach puts in our packet every year. It is a story about anybody, somebody, nobody, and everybody. The jist of the story is that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done.
Example:
The most recent example of de-individualzation is Veishea at Iowa State. The people who flipped cars and pushed over light poles probably wouldn't have done it on their own. They lost their identity in a group setting. The three factors that promote de-individualization explain these behaviors. People didn't think they would be found out, they didn't think they were responsible, and they were in a large group.
The most recent example of de-individualzation is Veishea at Iowa State. The people who flipped cars and pushed over light poles probably wouldn't have done it on their own. They lost their identity in a group setting. The three factors that promote de-individualization explain these behaviors. People didn't think they would be found out, they didn't think they were responsible, and they were in a large group.