Which of the Following Factors Seemed to Help Explain Why

question 424

Multiple Choice

Which of the following factors seemed to help explain why no one helped Kitty Genovese?

• A) Each bystander thought that he or she was the only witness to the crime that was occurring.
• B) Some of the bystanders interpreted the situation as a lovers' quarrel or a domestic dispute.
• C) The bystanders were experiencing apathy, a phenomenon that happens due to the alienation and depersonalization of life in a big city.
• D) The bystanders were displaying a form of ethnocentrism.

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