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Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing | Healthland | TIME.com - 23 views

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There’s the denial that commonly occurs in response to difficult situations like receiving a cancer diagnosis or becoming addicted to drugs
- carsonmorneau on 01 Feb 12
  
  I can see how denial is related to avoiding atrocities, You lie to your conscious, you feel no guilt, and you prosper never looking back on what you did or saw being wrong.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I can see how denial is related to avoiding atrocities, You lie to your conscious, you feel no guilt, and you prosper never looking back on what you did or saw being wrong.</div>
  
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You don’t deny that something happened, but try to transform the meaning of it
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- carsonmorneau on 01 Feb 12
  
  There is one more. I don't know what it is called. But, there is that one where you refuse to believe that something didn't happen maybe by fear, I don't know? But there is that, denial of what is fake.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">There is one more. I don't know what it is called. But, there is that one where you refuse to believe that something didn't happen maybe by fear, I don't know? But there is that, denial of what is fake.</div>
  
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But these days, each family stands on its own. Such narrowly drawn lines of responsibility prevent intervention by outsiders
- carsonmorneau on 01 Feb 12
  
  Some might think that taking care of your own child is what you should do, but it's everyone's responsibility. without the perspective and opinions of others you group up ignorant, naive, and narrow-minded, and that is no way for a child to be raised.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Some might think that taking care of your own child is what you should do, but it's everyone's responsibility. without the perspective and opinions of others you group up ignorant, naive, and narrow-minded, and that is no way for a child to be raised.</div>
  
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Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing | Healthland | TIME.com - 18 views

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When the actions of a group are public and visible, insiders who behave in an unacceptable way — doing things that “contravene the norms of the group,” Levine says — may actually be punished by the group more harshly than an outsider would be for the same behavior.
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- carsonmorneau on 01 Feb 12
  
  I Completely understand the perspective. No one wants to to do anything that could hurt their reputation. But really? What happened to the influence f an anonymous person?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I Completely understand the perspective. No one wants to to do anything that could hurt their reputation. But really? What happened to the influence f an anonymous person?</div>
  
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the tendency is toward protecting the group’s reputation by covering up.
- carsonmorneau on 01 Feb 12
  
  If you want to be safe, if you want to be secure you need to be quiet. That is what everyone feels whether they reveal it or not, but people deep down just feel for acceptance. And acceptance is the root of this bystander effect.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If you want to be safe, if you want to be secure you need to be quiet. That is what everyone feels whether they reveal it or not, but people deep down just feel for acceptance. And acceptance is the root of this bystander effect.</div>
  
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What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 4 views

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Our species has a very conflicted sense of when we ought to help someone else and when we ought not, and the general rule is, Help those close to home and ignore those far away.
- carsonmorneau on 12 Jan 12
  
  When you are asked the question of whether or not we would help someone in trouble you most likely will answer the way others want you to answer. but, when it comes down to it you probably wouldn't and the situation will vary. but, the point is we do help those at home and faraway last, not knowing what is the most vital at the moment.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">When you are asked the question of whether or not we would help someone in trouble you most likely will answer the way others want you to answer. but, when it comes down to it you probably wouldn't and the situation will vary. but, the point is we do help those at home and faraway last, not knowing what is the most vital at the moment.</div>
  
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"Human beings were small, defenseless and vulnerable to predators," says Barbara J. King, biological anthropologist at the College of William and Mary and author of Evolving God. "Avoiding banishment would be important to us."
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What Makes Us Moral - A to Z Health Guide 2007 - TIME - 16 views

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shared by carsonmorneau on 08 Jan 12 - Cached

but also the pain of others. That quality is the distilled essence of what it means to be human.
- carsonmorneau on 10 Jan 12
  
  So humans are recognized not only by our judgment but by our empathy? We know what it feels like to suffer, what it feels like after we make a good or bad decision, that is what defines a human?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So humans are recognized not only by our judgment but by our empathy? We know what it feels like to suffer, what it feels like after we make a good or bad decision, that is what defines a human?</div>
  
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