Will People Stop to Help a Passed out Drunk,
Due to the bystander effect, there are many studies to see if people will stop to help another person in trouble. However, none of those studies looked at the specific variables of the person in need being drunk and passed out, and the gender of the confederate. There is no previous research on this study, which made us more eager to find out what the outcome of our research would be. The way the study went was the first night we had a female from our group lay outside the bars in this medium size town that encompasses a large University, on a street with many bars frequented with students and pretend they were drunk. The other group members stood on the other side of the street to observe the participants without being noticed. Each time a participant would walk by the confederate, we would observe whether they helped or did not help, we would then check the boxes in the chart. The next night we observed the male lying outside of the parties and bars. Our results didn't prove the part of our hypothesis that stated that more people would help the female confederate than the male confederate. Although, our results did prove that the majority of the participants would not stop and help regardless of gender. The same perc
Our research design was that one female would 'pass out' in front of a bar, and we would sit at a distance and watch our participant's actions'. This made us more eager to find out what the outcome of our research would be. entage of people stopped to help in both cases, this leads us to the conclusion that the gender of the drunk person did not effect whether or not the people stopped to help. The same percentage of people stopped to help in both cases, this leads us to the conclusion that the gender of the drunk person did not effect whether or not the people stopped to help. Procedure:The first night we had a female from our group lay outside the bars in this medium size town that encompasses a large University, on a street with many bars frequented with students. We also assumed the people walking outside the bars were partially drunk. Our results didn't prove the part of our hypothesis that stated that more people would help the female confederate than the male confederate. 54 of the 74 (72%) participants did not stop to help the male confederate and the remaining 21 (28%) stopped to help, which didn't prove the part of our hypothesis that stated that more people would help the female confederate than the male confederate. Each time a participant would walk by the confederate, we would observe whether they helped or did not help, we would then check the boxes in the chart, described in the materials section. The confederate would lie outside and pretend they were drunk. The same percentage of people stopped to help in both cases, this leads us to the conclusion that the gender of the drunk person did not effect whether or not the people stopped to help. If someone stopped to help them they would tell them that they were fine, in the case that that was not enough for the participant, the confederate would let them help them up and wait for the participant to leave. There were a total of 191 participants. Again after arriving at each site and before we started we told the local police what we were doing to prevent problems, and when needed we also informed the bar owners or bouncers. By doing this study we can better inform people of what would happen in the situation where they would be the one passed out and needing help.
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