Bystander Intervention Into Crime: A Study Based on Naturally-Occurring Episodes

Do online reviews affect product sales? The role of reviewer characteristics and temporal effects

“…Our method can also be viewed as a variation of matching sample techniques where variables of interest across treatment (in our case favorable news group) and control groups (in our case unfavorable news group) are compared. Matching sample techniques have been widely used across different disciplines including psychology, economics, and management science [23,28,30,31].…”

Bystander education: Bringing a broader community perspective to sexual violence prevention

“…Researchers have also investigated factors such as the impact of the bystander's mood, sense of responsibility including nature of relationship to the person in need of help, locus of control, or esteem-orientation~see Dozier &Miceli, 1985 andMyers, 1999 for reviews;Huston, Ruggiero, Conner, & Geis, 1981;Michelini, Wilson, & Messe, 1975;Tice & Baumeister, 1985;Yee & Greenberg, 1998;Wispe, 1980!. Finally, some research suggests that skill level of bystanders is also important, with active bystanders more likely to have had previous training in emergency intervention or a strong sense of their own physical strength~e.g., Huston et al, 1981!. Bystander Education • Yet another group of studies focuses in more detail on the decision-making process for bystanders. This process includes consideration of the potential costs to bystanders of intervening or of not intervening, and the complex decision-making process that individuals may use when trying to decide what they will do~e.g., Dozier & Miceli, 1985;Fritzsche, Finkelstein, & Penner, 2000;Shaleff & Shichor, 1980!.…”

The informal social control of intimate partner violence against women: Exploring personal attitudes and perceived neighborhood social cohesion

“…In social psychology there is a long tradition of research into whether and under what conditions individuals provide assistance to others in emergency or victimization situations, termed bystander intervention~Harari, Harari, & White, 1985;Huston, Ruggiero, Ross, & Gilbert, 1981;Laner, Benin, & Ventrone, 2001;Latane & Darley, 1968!. These studies have focused on how bystanders providing assistance in an emergency situation are influenced by various factors, ranging from sociodemographic characteristics of the bystander and the victim, such as whether they are married~Shotland & Straw, 1976!, to situational factors, such as the number of people present during the event~Borges & Penta, 1977!.…”