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Do You Want to Help a Stranger?
Darley and latina's 19 68 study is the one that appears in all the text books, but it wasn't the only experiment to explore the conditions under which people decide to help. It turns out that simply telling subjects it's ok to help completely reverses latini and darley original findings. The real operating mechanism here is uncertainty. What's the right thing for me to do? What does society xpect of me? What will happen if i step forward?