levine and piliavin

• nature of L & P- difference

  • levine= cross cultral study with a specifically designed hypothesis abt cultral differences in helping respoences
  • however piliavin was limited to only one city (nyc)
• type of experi L & P- similarity

  • both conducted in field settings ( nyc sub & cities in the world)
  • piliavin used independent measures and levine used quasi (diff)
• generalisability of L & P- difference

  • both use real life measures
  • piliavin is clearly responce to helping in emergency situations but levine observed non emergency situations
  • this limits the extent results can be generalised to forms of helping that are diff to ones investigated