Bystander Effect

Several decades ago, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in front of several witnesses, but no one intervened. Genovese was attacked for a mere thirty minutes by Moseley, her perpetrator, in front of her home. The attacker fled the scene for ten minutes and returned to kill Genovese after he proceeded to sexually harass her.
Following the incident, different conclusions of why no one helped arose when 38 people who witnessed the murder was disclosed. Human behavior in emergency situations sparked researchers' interest and a series of experiments resulted in the most replicable effects in social psychology.
Darley and Latane (1968) were the first researchers to investigate bystander intervention in an emergency situation. They hypothesized the more bystanders present in an emergency led to a slower response time of helping behavior or offering aid. Further explorations of bystander intervention expanded the norms of intervention and the diffusion of responsibility with more than one witness.
In accordance to the different types of situations tested for bystander effect, studies consistently concluded that the amount of time it took to respond increased when more people are present. When diffusion of responsibility is dispersed among a group of people, they are more likely to depend on others to aid in an emergency. Consequently, diffusion of responsibility leads to a slower reaction time in aiding behavior. Not only were the situations examined based on non-emergency and emergency situations, but also high and low status individuals. High status participants are more likely to react faster in an emergency because they are rated as having more intelligence and are aware of what to do.
Based on converse results in real-life situations according to an officer from the San Jose Police Department, different reactions will come from various emergencies, location, time, and severity; I am interested to see future studies focus on human behavior and their reaction time to emergency situations in different areas of the U.S and the world. Examining the correlation between high and low status individuals and location is relevant to bystander intervention. Furthermore, does intervening behavior vary between the type of emergency and the connectedness of interveners within a group?
What would you do in an emergency situation with five, ten, or twenty other witnesses? Would the location and type of emergency prompt you to react differently? Do you think you are more likely to help if you had proper training focused on the emergency at hand? Last, if you have answered these questions, do you rate yourself as a high or low status individual?

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