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Effect of bystanders on helping behaviour

            The effect of bystanders on helping behaviour.
             Single measured experiments concerned with helping behaviour were conducted. This experiment was concerned with the effect of bystanders on helping behaviour. Experiments were conducted in a public place within Monash University. Experimenter will drop a pile of 100 loose pages from a manilla folder, close to participants with the confederate either helping or not to retrieve the papers. The presence of bystanders help inhibits individual's helping behaviour. The confederate helping reduces the number of participants willing to retrieve the papers, it is concluded that the effects of bystanders affects helping behaviour.
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             Bryan & Test (1967) found out that presence of helping model increase the helping behaviour of an individual. Bryan and Test suggested that the process of conformity to social norms. More males were more likely stopped to render help to the female in changing her tyre if another male had been seen changing tyre earlier. People use actions of other people as cues to decide what an appropriate responses to specific situations should be ( Cialdini, Reno & Kallgren,1990) .
             The present experiment was conducted to examine the effect of bystanders on helping behaviour. .
             Two hypotheses have emerged regarding the effects of bystanders on helping behaviour. It was predicted that the presence of helping model reduces the probability that a person offers a helping behaviour.
             A second hypothesis suggests that helping behaviour of a person conforms to the behaviour of bystanders. .
             Method .
             The experiment was conducted at a public place within Monash University. The subjects were lone subjects standing in a public place within Monash University. 274 participants took part in the experiment.
             140 pieces of loose pages in a manilla folder were used for the experiment. .
             Single measured experiment is conducted to find out how the helping and non-helping confederates affect the helping behaviour of a participant in an emergency situation.


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