If you saw someone being harassed or assaulted in a busy public place, what would you do? Psychologists have long explored that question with the bystander effect, "a phenomenon in which people fail ...

The bystander effect occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation, against a bully, or during an assault or other crime. The greater the ...

Bystander behaviour may be a term you’re familiar with in a general sense, or when considering news reports, but what about in the workplace? In psychological terms, bystander behaviour is when the ...

The most powerful evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Derek Chauvin was a video showing the then-Minneapolis police officer pinning a pleading George Floyd to the ground by kneeling on his ...

Our Hatch kids are at it again, with a savvy, responsible message all kids (and adults) should watch. One of their latest conversations focuses on cyberbullying and the “bystander effect,” and the ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's a question many people have asked since seeing video of a Park Ranger being attacked in Love Park over the weekend - why didn't anyone help? KYW's Dan Wing spoke with a ...

Sexual assault, pushed into public conversation by the #MeToo movement, once again dominates the U.S. news cycle. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations that he sexually assaulted ...

This hesitation is often driven by the "bystander effect" – the assumption that someone else has likely already spotted the ...