Theme 2: Responses to people in need

• The studies for responses to people in need

  Classic study = Piliavin, I.M et al. (1969). Good Samaritanism: an underground phenomenon? Behaviour = bystander effect

  Contemporary study = Levine, R.V., et al. (2001). Cross-cultural differences in helping strangers. Behaviour = cross cultural helping behaviour
• Example comparison question

  
• Example new understanding question

  CULTURAL DIVERSITY

  
• Similarities + differences

  SIMILAR:

  • both have high internal reliability
  • both high internal validity (controls)
  • quantitative data

  DIFFERENCES

  • Piliavin ethnocentric
  • Piliavin manipulated IV