With diffusion of responsibility is meant that people individually feel less responsible for the
actions of their group when the group is bigger. Therefor if the group is bigger, people are
less likely to help. Evaluation of apprehension is the worry of being judged by others.
Someone who experiences evaluation of apprehension might be quicker to help someone
out because they don’t want to be judged as unhelpful or unkind. Pluralistic ignorance is a
situation in which an opinion that the minority has is falsely evaluated as the opinion of the
majority. The illusion of transparency is the overestimation of the individual of how clearly
their mental state can be seen by an audience. One might be less likely to help when this
illusion occurs, because they are afraid that the audience might notice how scared or
nervous they are.
The decision tree model of helping implies that an individual will only help if they notice the
incident, interpret it as an emergency, assume personal responsibility (diffusion of
responsibility, pluralistic ignorance), believe they are able to help (evaluation of
apprehension, illusion of transparancy) and make the conscious decision to do so.
The bystander effect will occur more prominently if the emergency is non-dangerous. A focal
person in the decisionmaking process can help decrease the bystander effect.
actions of their group when the group is bigger. Therefor if the group is bigger, people are
less likely to help. Evaluation of apprehension is the worry of being judged by others.
Someone who experiences evaluation of apprehension might be quicker to help someone
out because they don’t want to be judged as unhelpful or unkind. Pluralistic ignorance is a
situation in which an opinion that the minority has is falsely evaluated as the opinion of the
majority. The illusion of transparency is the overestimation of the individual of how clearly
their mental state can be seen by an audience. One might be less likely to help when this
illusion occurs, because they are afraid that the audience might notice how scared or
nervous they are.
The decision tree model of helping implies that an individual will only help if they notice the
incident, interpret it as an emergency, assume personal responsibility (diffusion of
responsibility, pluralistic ignorance), believe they are able to help (evaluation of
apprehension, illusion of transparancy) and make the conscious decision to do so.
The bystander effect will occur more prominently if the emergency is non-dangerous. A focal
person in the decisionmaking process can help decrease the bystander effect.
