Overcoming Bystander Apathy and Non-Intervention in Alcohol-Poisoning Emergency Situations: Advancing Field Testing of Training-for-Intervention Theory via Thought Experiments

Consider groups of partying college students failing to helpfully assist someone in life- threatening distress from alcoholic poisoning. Anecdotal evidence (Davis and DeBarros, 2006) supports the social-norming theory subfield of unresponsive bystander research by Latane and Darley (1970) and others...

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Main Authors: Megehee, C., Strick, S., Woodside, Arch
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Journal of Business and Economics 2012
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Online Access:http://econpapers.repec.org/article/ijbjournl/v_3a11_3ay_3a2012_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a93-103.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10181