The World is a fine Place and worth fighting for, I believe in the latter part. - Ernest Hemmingway, Andrew Kevin Walker

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Bystander effect may not exist.

The Bystander effect is believed to be something that causes humans to be less likely to intervene and help someone in distress the more people are witnesses an event. Its a generally accepted psychological phenomena but recently a scientist has cast doubt on the theory:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8761745.stm

So we might be almost as good as Orangutans!

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