Understanding the Bystander Effect

  • Mcc - Catriona McCartney
  • 13 February 2019
  • Bullying | Bystander Effect | Harassment

Stop being a spare part.

Most of us have experienced it. Someone harasses a stranger on the train but fellow commuters don’t intervene. Or a person collapses in a busy city centre, but no one rushes to their rescue. Psychologists call this phenomenon the 'bystander effect'. And it doesn’t just happen

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