10/07/2014

Today in class we continued watching the documentary on the way people are wired mentally from a social point. I was really surprised when we watched the clip of the woman getting stabbed to death in front of her apartment building because no one helped her even though they all knew that there was something wrong. The person who lived on the bottom floor even opened his door and saw what was going on but still did nothing. From this scene I concluded that the reason why this happened was because if there are a lot of people witnessing an incident then they all assume that someone else has already called 911 and won't do it themselves anymore. This relates back to the office fire experiment. In this experiment people take a survey and smoke starts coming from under the door. When there was only one person taking it he got up right away and told someone about the fire. On the other hand when there were 3 people in the room taking the survey, the smoke started to rise from the door but no one did anything. They all looked like they assumed that the other person would take action for what was happening.