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44 years ago today, was published in the New York Times a research article that was titled "38 people who saw a murder and did not call the police." It talked about the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens. The murder occurred on the street and cries for help were heard by several neighbors, but none intervened. The article quoted an anonymous neighbor who saw part of the attack, but decided not to call the police because "I wanted to be involved."

Although the article can be considered as inaccurate and sensationalist, this case became a clear example of the insensitivity of citizens in large cities such as New York. I am reminded of a program Michael Moore (The Awful Truth), where he placed simultaneously in the cities of New York, Ontario and London, three actors who pretended to be unwell suddenly and hit the ground. The aim was to know in which city would lend support before and how long it would take. London was where he assisted in the first place, but before that spent more than an hour.

Kitty Genovese's case led to some psychological research on this phenomenon, known as "bystander effect" or "Genovese syndrome." Basically what it indicates is that one person usually intervene if it sees that another person needs help, but this aid is less likely if more people present. In a group every other step in and assume that all refrain from doing so. The group makes a blurring of the responsibility.

The publication of this article have already passed 44 years. But it's totally worth almost half a century later. Given all this I open many questions, and most importantly, how many times have I done so? You can change this attitude?

What is learned by browsing the Wikipedia! Ah! Another thing I've found, and that led me to hear this case, is the concept of diffusion of responsibility, which could manifest as the "bystander effect" or as part of the chain of command in a hierarchical organization, as might be the army where they control orders without actually doing anything, and saying the soldiers met only follow the orders given. This second aspect was used, unsuccessfully, as a defense for many of the defendants at Nuremberg. Related

dispersion of responsibility is the "Milgram experiment" , where it is interesting to ask what we would do in a similar case. Note the difference between the results obtained and the thought that really got. Yesterday