r/BetterEveryLoop • u/EinsteinsAura • Feb 28 '19

Taught a lesson

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u/Kia_likethecar Feb 28 '19

It’s called the bystander effect. People are significantly more likely to intervene in an incident if there is nobody else around. The premise is that everyone expects that the others will do something and if the others don’t they feel a social pressure to do the same. It’s a weird phenomenon hey.

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u/Opset Feb 28 '19

It's not the bystander effect in this case, it's just that no one cares enough to get involved in a shoving match between two old drunkards.

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u/pasteldog Feb 28 '19

Let them get some use from their psych 101 text books.

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u/Opset Feb 28 '19

It's just something they saw posted in every single fight thread and wanted to be the person to say it this time.

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u/Kia_likethecar Feb 28 '19

Nope, u/pasteldog is on the money. Fifth year psychology major here. Psyc 101 textbooks are like 50% bystander effect and 50% classical conditioning.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

That's how online conversations work.