Blog 11: Revice the CATW Pratice 2

              There are some information about the individuals in groups. The article "In Groups We Shrink" by Carol Tavris indicates how people react differently on their own in groups. They have different behaviors between themselves and within groups. People become lazier when there are a large amount of people in groups. There's no one has responsibility to stop an accident or helping others because they think they don't have to do anything and there are someone else would come to take care of it. This phenomenon, psychologists call it "diffusion of responsibility". I agree with the idea that the author had mentioned "the more people in a group, the lazier each individual in it becomes".

               Someone would be dead indirectly by the people who is not concerned for the victim eventhough they saw and heard that, they are still not going to take care of it. Here is a news I have watched on YouTube, and it happend for real in China, October 2011. In the remote monitoring, it recorded the day that a three or four year old girl, walked alone on the street who had accident twice by two trucks, and there are 18 strangers passed by, but nobody was going to call for help or give a helping hand. After a long while, a trash man saw this girl, and called for help. Finally, this girl's parents was coming after they heard that accident. Unfortunately, it's too late for curing.

               I also experienced the same situation in my surrounding area that people in group are careless about someone who needs help. I remembered a day when I was on the way back home from shopping mall, i heard someone was screaming from across the street. I noticed that someone had robbered an iphone from that lady because I saw the lady was running and yelling behind a guy who hold an iphone in his hand and running realy faster. The lady kept running and yelling, but still no one was going to help her to catch the robber.

               In brief, these two evidence are both express that people are less responsibility when they are in a large amount of group. It's bad behavior and coldblood by uncerned others in groups who needs helps. You might save someone's life if you give whom a helping hand. For example, if there's someone who called for help earlier, the girl might be saved; if there's someone or some people who walked on that street caught the guy who robbered the iPhone, the lady might retrieve her iPhone back. Therefore, there probably will decreasing the crimes and misfortune by helping others who needs help in any situation you at.