The Bystander Effect

The Bystander Effect
What is the Bystander Effect?:
The Bystander Effect is the more of a crowd there is, the less likely one of the people are to act on something.

The more people that do act, the more likely others are to act too.

This is similar to the Bandwagon effect, where when someone is doing something, others are likely to follow, even when it isn’t right, due to them being pressured.

How does this relate to the incident in class?: This relates to that class period in that some people started acting silly, and so then more started acting silly, and since everyone else was watching/ working on their robots, no one wanted to stand up for it and say it wasn’t right.

If someone would have said something, then others would have agreed