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In Reply to: Here's a 'must read' article... one that makes me somewhat sad... posted by Enchantment1.6s on April 8, 2007 at 15:52:13:
...the results are not very surprising. There's a well-known social psychology experiment, in which theological seminary students were told to go to another building on campus to deliver a lecture on the parable of the Good Samaritan. Along the way, they saw a man slumped on the floor, apparently ill or drunk (a confederate of the experimenter). Did they stop to help? Generally, no, but the frequency of stopping depended on other conditions of the experiment. The seminarians that were in a "High Hurry" condition, where they were told that they were going to be late for the lecture, had the lowest frequency of stopping to help, and ones in the "Low Hurry" condition, where they were told that the lecture was not due to start for some time, had much higher frequency of helping. I think this is relavant to the findings here, in that the early morning rush hour almost by definition is a "High Hurry" condition. A better demonstration would be to have Joshua Bell play in a square at noon on a sunny day, during the time that the office workers have their lunch hour. I would bet that in that situation Mr. Bell would have a much more receptive audience.
Bob
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- Interesting article, but... - Robert Deutsch 10:04:35 04/09/07 (1)
- Exactly... - mkuller 14:38:42 04/09/07 (0)
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