Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence from CCTV Footage
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Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence from CCTV Footage. / Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz; Liebst, Lasse Suonperä; Richard, Philpot; Levine, Mark; Bernasco, Wim.
In: Social Psychological and Personality Science, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2022, p. 795-802.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts?
T2 - Evidence from CCTV Footage
AU - Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz
AU - Liebst, Lasse Suonperä
AU - Richard, Philpot
AU - Levine, Mark
AU - Bernasco, Wim
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In real-life violence, bystanders can take an active role in de-escalating conflict and helping others. Recent meta-analytical evidence of experimental studies suggests that elevated danger levels in conflicts facilitate bystander intervention. However, this finding may lack ecological validity because ethical concerns prohibit exposing participants to potentially harmful situations. Using an ecologically valid method, based on an analysis of 80 interpersonal conflicts unobtrusively recorded by public surveillance cameras, the present study confirms that danger is positively associated with bystander intervention. In the presence of danger, bystanders were 19 times more likely to intervene than in the absence of danger. It extends this knowledge by discovering that incremental changes in the severity level of the danger (low, medium, and high), however, were not associated with bystander intervention. These findings confirm the importance of further investigating the role of danger for bystander intervention, in larger samples, and involving multiple types of real-life emergencies.
AB - In real-life violence, bystanders can take an active role in de-escalating conflict and helping others. Recent meta-analytical evidence of experimental studies suggests that elevated danger levels in conflicts facilitate bystander intervention. However, this finding may lack ecological validity because ethical concerns prohibit exposing participants to potentially harmful situations. Using an ecologically valid method, based on an analysis of 80 interpersonal conflicts unobtrusively recorded by public surveillance cameras, the present study confirms that danger is positively associated with bystander intervention. In the presence of danger, bystanders were 19 times more likely to intervene than in the absence of danger. It extends this knowledge by discovering that incremental changes in the severity level of the danger (low, medium, and high), however, were not associated with bystander intervention. These findings confirm the importance of further investigating the role of danger for bystander intervention, in larger samples, and involving multiple types of real-life emergencies.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - helping behavior
KW - bystander intervention
KW - violence
KW - aggression
KW - emergency
KW - danger
KW - systematic video observation
U2 - 10.1177/19485506211042683
DO - 10.1177/19485506211042683
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 795
EP - 802
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 4
ER -
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