Comments on: Breaking the Bystander Effect http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/ Imagine a Better Tomorrow, Today Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:19:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Real Life Superheroes.net | Blog | Kick-Ass: A Response to the Bystander Effect » Real Life Superheroes.net http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-1941 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:23:54 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-1941 [...] just knowing about the bystander effect will make you less helpless to its effects.  Others, like Imagine Today, proclaim that, to break a crowds passiveness, you should shout out specific tasks to specific [...]

]]> By: J http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-1587 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:21:54 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-1587 Check your mail Odessa! (Actually, strike that… can you e-mail me directly? Gmail is telling me that your e-mail doesn’t exist!)

(Side-note to anyone interested in posting on Imagine Today: just shoot me an e-mail at sunfollowers@gmail.com and we can talk about what you’d like to contribute!)

]]> By: Odessa Elsea http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-1586 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:59:32 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-1586 Please let me know if you’re looking for a author for your weblog. You have some really good posts and I think I would be a good asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I’d absolutely love to write some material for your blog in exchange for a link back to mine. Please send me an email if interested. Cheers!

]]> By: Real Life Superheroes in the News » Blog Archive » Kick-Ass: A Response to the Bystander Effect http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-1071 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:51:27 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-1071 [...] just knowing about the bystander effect will make you less helpless to its effects.  Others, like Imagine Today, proclaim that, to break a crowds passiveness, you should shout out specific tasks to specific [...]

]]> By: Real Life Superheroes.org » Blog Archive » Kick-Ass: A Response to the Bystander Effect http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-752 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:52:48 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-752 [...] just knowing about the bystander effect will make you less helpless to its effects.  Others, like Imagine Today, proclaim that, to break a crowds passiveness, you should shout out specific tasks to specific [...]

]]> By: Kick-Ass, a Response to the Bystander Effect | Conducive Chronicle http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-751 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:47:04 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-751 [...] just knowing about the bystander effect will make you less helpless to its effects.  Others, like Imagine Today, proclaim that, to break a crowds passiveness, you should shout out specific tasks to specific [...]

]]> By: david hennessey http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-598 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:33:06 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-598 Thank you Jill for your words on the Bystander effect. I am impressed that you had some solutions to offer people to stop this social problem. So many times people talk about it and do not offer a solution or a form of solution. I am an optimist too and I believe there is always a solution.
David
P.S. I just wrote a blog note about the bystander effect located at http://thewondertechnique.net/2009/10/27/the-bystander-effect/ to keep spreading the word to stop it.

]]> By: Being an active bystander « The Gender Blender Blog http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-330 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:02:57 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-330 [...] Being an active bystander 25 06 2009 The quote on my reusable Lululemon bag says “The world is changing at such a rapid rate that waiting to implement changes will leave you 2 steps behind.  Do it now, do it now, do it now!“  Having seen this several times on a daily basis for the past couple days since I’ve gotten the bag and started using it, I immediately thought of this quote when I read Breaking the Bystander Effect. [...]

]]> By: Wednesday Linkage! | Change Happens: The SAFER Blog http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-328 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:08:49 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-328 [...] writes an awesome post about breaking the bystander effect on I’ll Follow the [...]

]]> By: J http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-324 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:31:18 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-324 Thanks for the comments everyone :) It really is amazing the sounds that come from nature! This may be TMI but I used to get so scared when I was little (like five or six) by these horrendous noises I heard outside my window. I now know that it was cats (my neighbor has many outdoor cats) mating in the woods (an experience that is, apparently, painful for the female -causing her to yowl). The owl incident reminded me of those scary nights… I wish I could remember how my parents explained that one to me at the time!

And Lauren – thats such a sad, crazy story. I’ve heard so many stories like yours in my psych classes and on the news (does anyone remember the woman who died in the hospital emergency room around a year ago because no one stopped to help her? Crazy.) Thank you for doing the right thing and calling the police!

]]> By: Lauren O http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-318 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:25:40 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-318 I once drove past a man lying dead in the middle of the freeway, presumably run over. I got home and called the cops, and that was the first they’d heard of it, despite the fact that all the cars in front of me had switched lanes to avoid hitting his corpse. Bystander Effect is hella real!

]]> By: SnowdropExplodes http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-315 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:55:41 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-315 re: the barn owl voice – I once heard a vixen’s mating call and thought someone was being raped or something; as it happened, I was with a wildlife expert who told me that it was something else, but otherwise I’d have been trying to figure out where the screams were coming from and gone to help. But that was a situation where there was no bystander effect in operation (it being late at night and just the two of us on a moonlit walk through the countryside).

On the bystander effect – I like to think I’m immune to it because of having practised in my mind “what would I do if…?” but I’m probably kidding myself. On the other hand, the times where I think I have faced it was when I saw dogs who were tied up in the street and worried that they might have been abandoned. I was ready to call out anyone I could (try the number on the tag, then the animal rescue people or the police or something).

But social conformity and peer pressure is seriously scary in its power in some situations, and I don’t think anyone is immune to it completely.

]]> By: Mike Dilbeck http://imaginetoday.net/2009/06/15/breaking-the-bystander-effect/#comment-307 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:14:00 +0000 http://sunfollower.wordpress.com/?p=2480#comment-307 Thank you so much for your post — I have created a project around bystander behavior and actually travel the country speaking about it to college campuses. My website is somewhat under development but take a look. Really inspiring post!

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