Good Samaritanism: An Underground Phenomenon
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Piliavin et al. (1969)
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- Adjacent Area Critical Area
- Observers
- Pretend Passenger
- Critical Area
- Male Actor
- Real Passengers
- Critical Area
- Male Actor
- Each student group consisted of two male actors and two female observers. One male acted as the victim and the other male was a model (pretend passenger). The two females sat in the adjacent area to observe and record what the passengers did.
- Critical Area
- In some cases, the victim actor was carrying a cane and appeared blind. Each victim was instructed to collapse and stare at the ceiling of the carriage until assistance came. The time it took for assistance to arrive also varied, as the model did not always offer help.
- Critical Area
- In some cases, the victim was carrying a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag and appeared drunk. Sometimes, the model would interfere at about 70 seconds or about 150 seconds after the victim collapsed.
- Critical Area
- In 62 out of 65 trials where the victim was carryinga cane, passengers helped the victim before the model planned to intervene. This was comparedto 19 out of 38 trials where passengers helped the drunk victim before the model planned to intervene.
- In 81 out of 103 trials, the victimwas helped before the model was scheduled to help. Furthermore, in 60% of these trials, more than one passenger came to the aid of the victim.
- They found that men were more likely to be the first ones to help the victim; in fact, 90% of the first helpers were males. Also, they found that 68% of helpers, who came to the aid of a white victim, were also white. This was compared to just 50% of white passengers, who came to the aid of the black victim. Race also seemed to have an effect when it came to whether the victim was drunk. There was a tendency for the same race to help the drunk victim.
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