The question this paper is trying to answer is how to help people while they were in distress. Helping people in distress states, "an act governed by ethical norms and precepts taught to children at home, in school, and church." Internalization of these standards is different personality studies show that the way people act in situations similar to this, are going to be different. Testing these acts of helping people and possible situations from a fresh viewpoint have not been done. Which is the goal of Darley and Batson's study. The Bible's "Good Samaritan" was their inspiration.
             A researcher who is worth their salt, will find similar studies, and studies on situations of morality. Recently experiments have been examinations on bystander intervention in emergency situations, failed in finding a measure (Bicknam, 1969: Darley&Latane, 1968: Korte, 1960). Associates with helping behavior were successfully measured such as authoritarianism, social desirability and social responsibility. Personality and situation variables are applicable to help which parable with a valuable suggestion.
             Dispositional and situational variables devise two tests when being measured. Personality questionnaires should establish types of religiosity, which is a dispositional variable. In the questionnaire they found that there were three types of religiosity. Religion as a means, religion as an end and religion as a quest are the three types. The explanation of religiosity was found dispositional why they are in the religion in the first place. Experimental procedures were asked to start their subject in one building and then moved into anther building for later procedures, which measured the situational variables.
             The dependent variable "helping behavior" had three hypotheses, which the study was based on. The first hypothesis says that people who encounter a situation that asks for a "helping response while thinking religion and...