When Latané and Darley (1970)later Tested the Effects of the Number

question 128

Multiple Choice

When Latané and Darley (1970) later tested the effects of the number of bystanders on whether people intervene in an emergency,they left the laboratory and staged a fake theft at a convenience store.This new study was

• A)covered in the New York Times.
• B)a non-experimental field study that supported experimental results.
• C)low in external validity.
• D)unsuccessful,demonstrating the low external validity of their lab experiments.
• E)a field experiment that replicated laboratory results.

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