Ep 25 The Bystander Effect: Why People Stay Silent
You would think more people means more help.
More witnesses. More awareness. More chances that someone will step in.
But psychology says something much stranger happens in crowds: responsibility starts to spread out so thinly that no one feels like it belongs to them.
In this episode of Curio Cabinet, we’re opening the Cabinet to the bystander effect — the unsettling psychological phenomenon where people become less likely to help when others are present.
We’ll explore diffusion of responsibility, pluralistic ignorance, fear of embarrassment, the misunderstood Kitty Genovese case, and why…
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