A man collapses on a busy high street. More than twenty shoppers walk past him and each assumes that somebody else will call for help. Nobody stops for several minutes.
Explain why the shoppers did not help, using your knowledge of the bystander effect.
40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 5.1 Social influence, covering 5.1.1 Key terms, 5.1.2 Factors affecting bystander intervention, 5.1.3 Conformity to majority influence, 5.1.4 Obedience to authority, 5.1.5 Behaviour of crowds, and 5.1.6 Preventing blind obedience. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.