Why can’t we just ask? The influence of research methods on results. The case of the “bystander effect”

• Authors: Tomasz Grzyb

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the issue of the departure from examining real behaviours in a real environment, a trend in social psychology which has been observed going back several years, and the impact of this phenomenon for social psychology as a scientific discipline. The article presents two studies on the well-known and explored “bystander effect” (Darley, Latane, 1968). This phenomenon is examined in two ways – once by way of a “traditional” field experiment conducted in natural conditions, and once through a survey. As it turned out, the results generated by the two studies were diametrically opposite, and only in the field experiment were we able to achieve a pattern of results consistent with those in the original studies.

Keywords

EN

field experiment; “Bystander effect”; duffusion of responsibility

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 233-235

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Tomasz Grzyb

• Uniwersytet Opolski, Instytut Psychologii, pl. Staszica 1, 45-015 Opole

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2016-0027

Biblioteka Nauki

430703