Piliavins subway study

• AIM?

  To investigate whether certain characteristics of a victim make help more forthcoming
• AIM= To investigate whether certain characteristics of a victim make help more forthcoming
• AIM= To investigate whether certain characteristics of a victim make help more…

  forthcoming
• METHOD= 103 trials on a nyc subway. 2 researchers pretended to collapse. 38 trials ‘drunk‘ and how many trials disabled?

  65
• METHOD= How many drunk trials?

  38
• METHOD= How many disabled trials?

  65
• RESULT= A person using a cane was helped at some point on what percent of the trials?

  95%
• RESULT= What percentage of the trials was the drunk person helped on?

  50%
• RESULT= 17% of drunk were helped in seventy seconds, what percentage of trials were the disabled helped within seventy seconds?

  87%
• CONCLUSION= Certain characteristics of victims make a difference to whether they receive help
• CONCLUSION= The deserving are more likely to be given help than the less deserving
• CONCLUSION= In a natural setting, the number of people who witness the emergency does not have an effect on their willingness to help
• :) EVALUATION= Qualitative and Quantitive data (detailed)
• :( EVALUATION= Limited sample, all nyc, not generalised to the wider population
• :) EVALUATION= Highly realistic, field experiment so they acted natural
• :( EVALUATION= No consent or privacy