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“A now-famous series of experiments by Latane and Darley (1969) uncovered the bystander effect, also known as bystander apathy, in which larger numbers of people are less likely to act in emergencies - not only individually, but collectively.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky, paper author 2008 Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks (UC Berkeley (hosted))

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Latane and Darley's 1969 experiments found the bystander effect: larger groups are less likely to act in emergencies, individually and collectively.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Latane and Darley's 1969 experiments found the bystander effect: larger groups are less likely to act in emergencies, individually and collectively.” (said 2008). Verdict: not researched. Reliability API, claim c_66031cc4f1f4, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_66031cc4f1f4

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