Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Book Reading #16 - Opening Skinner's Box

Chapter 4: In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing

Summary:
The author starts by discussing how a girl was murdered in front of several witnesses that did nothing to help until the murder was already over. She then describes an experiment in which the researchers faked a seizure to see if people would help. It turned out that the more people the witness thought knew about the seizure, the less likely they were to help.

Discussion:
This was a great read. In my opinion people just think that someone else will take care of it and as a result they do not need to burden themselves by taking action.

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