The Effect of Gender Assignment 2022

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Abstract
The Bystander effect claims that any individual is unlikely to help any other person in need
even when other people are present in the same situation, they just stay as bystanders. There
have been numerous studies on the Bystander effect, and all of them have concluded that
there is a question “Why me? When others can”. No one helps the person in need because of
this. The greater the number of bystanders the less the help as the responsibility of pro-social
behavior is lifted up from their shoulders. This study, however, aims to determine the effect
of gender in Bystander effect in the prosocial behavior amongst Adolescents, i.e. individuals
in their prime teenage years.

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The Effect of Gender on the Bystander Effect in Prosocial Behaviour
amongst Adolescents
In 1968 the social psychologists John M. Darley and BibbLatané proved and
popularized the bystander effect in the laboratory after they became interested in this issue
following the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 (Darley &Latane, 1968). These researchers
launched a series of experiments that resulted in the most powerful and replicable effects in
social psychology. An emergency situation is being staged and if they intervene, scientists
will assess how long it takes the respondents to act (Colorado State University, n.d.). These
experiments discovered that other people's presence inhibits help, often through a huge
margin. The presence of others inhibits this experiment, often at a big margin. BibbLatané
and Judith Rodin conducted an experiment around a distressed female. 70% of the persons
who call or went alone to help the woman after thinking she had been killed and hurt had
fallen, but only 40% had offered assistance when others were in the room. The nature of the
effect in question was bought in recent work (Jenkins & Nickerson, 2017).
The recent works further explore the bystander effects, ours is based on how the adolescents
react to gender effect.
Our study performed the observations in three settings,
 One, when both the bystanders and victim are the same gender-male.
 Second, when both the bystanders and victims are opposite genders/mixed.
 Third, when both the victim and bystanders and same gender-female.
The victim behaved as if they had lost their wallet, asking people for a dollar to call up
home. Adolescents have a common characteristic for carelessness and this did not seem
strange (Macaulay, Boulton& Betts, 2018). When a guy loses his wallet and asks others for a

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dollar, the others laugh and do not seem to help a lot, but after a few guys, one genuinely
hands out a dollar.
When a female loses a wallet and asks for help from a guy, everyone offers a dollar,
genuinely interested to help. This also arises from the fact that females are less likely to play
a con to collect dollars, and thus, everyone understands the criticality of the situation
(Nickerson &Mele-Taylor, 2014).
When a female is sent into a female-only facility and asks for a dollar, it is much easier to
gain one, unlike the male vicinity.
The conclusion is that Gender affects the bystander effect, this is in contrast to the study
of Darley and Latane that took place in 1968. Women are more likely to be helped and help,
as compared to men. Mean on the other hand do not help other men easily, which is in
contrast to the behavior of women (Nickerson, Aloe, Livingston &Feeley, 2014).
This arises from the fact that a woman has a motherly instinct, which makes them feel the
empathy towards any person in pain or need. Also, the woman folk tends to help their
counterparts and uplift them. A woman carries a more nutrient perspective on life. When
men, try to help the other woman, they consider it as a task that can make them a hero in the
society and heroism is what is deeply encrusted in a man’s ego. Heroism gives a man the
social fulfillment inside (Pozzoli& Gini, 2010).
This is not true in the case of women, who wanted to help the other woman much more
than a man wanted to help another man. Women care less about gender confederate.
The study on gender and bystander effect has been done seeing its potential to reduce
gender violence. Over the last few years, bystander interventions have become more popular
on university campuses due to their ability to decrease sex abuse (Pöyhönen,