Cialdini raamat
to be with others when witnessing a potential emergency situation.
CAUSE OF DEATH: UNCERTAIN(TY)
3. City dwellers know a much smaller percentage of fellow residents than do peo-
ple who live in small towns; therefore, city dwellers are more likely to find
themselves in a group of strangers when observing an emergency.
These three natural characteristics of urban environments-their confusion,
their populousness, and their low levels of acquaintanceship-fit in very well with
the factors shown by research to decrease bystander aid. Without ever having to re-
sort to such sinister concepts as "urban depersonalization" and "megalopolitan
alienation," then, we can explain why so many instances of bystander inaction
occur in our cities.
I am not optimistic, though, that commentators will typically engage in such
an explanation. For example, after a British Internet news service described yet an-
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