Moreover, the number of others is important, such that more bystanders leads to less assistance, although the impact of each additional bystander has a diminishing impact on helping.
In each case, bystanders filled the area, either by happenstance or because of the commotion, with some believing they were watching a bit of Hollywood special effects.
A few hundred cells were scored for each datapoint; the bystander cells containing at least one readily discernable by eye IRIF were enumerated, and were considered to be IRIF-positive.
I see it differently: About the only thing more terrifying than a lone gunman firing into a classroom or a crowded movie theater is a half a dozen more gunmen leaping around firing their pistols at the killer, which is to say really at each other and every bystander.
And rather than pressing plans to solve the impasse, Japan's bureaucrats try to spin it to their advantage, so that they can gain an edge over rival ministries.When confronted with this dismal display, the politicians, bureaucrats and bankers all blame each other, and bystanders blame the lot of them.
Fraser and colleagues [15] argued that each species might use several functions of bystander affiliation, but under different circumstances.
Each one was either the rapist or the passive bystander.
"These stupid firemen, they're arguing with each other while this building burns to the ground," a bystander says.
Airbnb could have stuck to a familiar line of reasoning: It is a passive bystander allowing a renter and landlord to find each other and make a private deal, with each party responsible for obeying the law.
Studying the Holocaust helps each of us to comprehend the downside of being a bystander, or of acting at the eleventh hour, rather than at the first opportunity.
