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 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.
             Will people stop to help a passed out drunk,
             And does the gender of the drunk matter?
             Have you ever been out at a party or a bar and seen someone very intoxicated, passed out drunk? Are you the type of person who would stop to help the intoxicated person or would you pay no attention, laugh, or maybe even play a prank on that person? Most of us say we would stop and try to help in some way. Some on the other hand would not have stopped, and just walked on by or even played a prank on the intoxicated individual. That's where our exper...

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