In the Latané and Rodin (1969) Experiment in Which Participants

question 7

Multiple Choice

In the Latané and Rodin (1969) experiment in which participants apparently heard a woman in an adjacent room fall from a chair, it was found that the bystander effect was reduced when:

• A) the participants were strangers to one another
• B) an authority figure was among the participants
• C) the participants were friends
• D) the participants were of the same sex
• E) the magnitude of the victim's apparent distress was increased

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