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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Bystander Effect and You

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The next time your car breaks down, count the number of vehicles that pass you by. That's the bystander effect in action. But why do people in crowds tend not to help those in need? Tune in to learn more about crowd apathy and what it says about humans.

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1:34.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:45.0

And I'm Julie Douglas.

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Julie, take us back to 1964. We're picking up a newspaper.

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