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Did a Latine and Darley Study Help Kitty Genevisi?
New academic research finds discrepancies in the text book version of kitty's story. Most people who were listed as witnesses didn't see anything, and those that did hear something found ways to try to help. The original studies were really only studying one particular type of situation - a very strong situation where an individual has been instructed to be passive. Unlike the witnesses in kitty's case, latine and darley's subjects weren't just passively doing their own thing when a random emergency happened.