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People were not debriefed about the experiment. They were not given the choice to leave the experiment and they also did not give consent making the experiment unethical.

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70 seconds after leaving the station, the person would collapse and not move until they received help. If no one helped in another 70 seconds, a model helper would come along. The female experimenters would record their observations.

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- No evidence for diffusion of responsibility
- People are more likely to help someone of their own race
- The longer an incident goes on for, the less likely people are going to help
- An ill person is more likely to receive help rather than a drunk person
- Men are more likely to help
- The more people in the carriage at one time increased the chance of someone helping

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- 79% of victims received spontaneous help
- 95% ill people received help whereas only 50% of drunk people received help
- Most helpers were male
- 83% of the drunk trials took over 70 seconds to receive help whereas only 17% of the cane trials took over 70 seconds
- In 21/103 trials passengers moved away
- Black drunks were less likely to receive help

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6-8 repeats a day on the same line, 11am to 3pm  (Harlem to Mid-Town). 103 in total.

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Worked in teams of 4. 2 men, 2 women. Each group contained one black male. All of them were aged

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There were 4450 people present at the time of testing, with an average of 43 people per cart. 45% were black and 55% were white in the carriages.

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To study the factors affecting whether people would help a collapsed man on the train.

These conditions were:
- Race of victim (black/white)
- Condition (drunk/ill)
- Presence of a model helper
- Number of bystanders

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A summary of Piliavin et al's (1969) study. For students following the OCR AS-level psychology syllabus.

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The behaviour of bystanders following the case of the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964. The murder attracted interest from psychologists because according to the press not one person out of the 40 people, who witnessed the attack lasting over half an hour, tried to help or contacted the police. Many laboratory studies were carried out by social psychologists to test bystander behaviour

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http://www.holah.karoo.net/piliavinmultiple.htm