Ten years of research on group size and helping.¶
Latané, B., & Nida, S. (1981). Ten years of research on group size and helping. Psychological Bulletin, 89(2), 308-324.
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Primes¶
- Bystander Effect
- The transfer paragraph: when an alert fires to a large on-call channel with no designated primary, median time-to-acknowledge increases as the roster grows, for the same three reasons: any given engineer sees that no one else has acted and infers either that the alert is a false positive (pluralistic ignorance), that someone more appropriate will handle it (diffusion of responsibility), or that paging up on a trivial alert would be costly to their reputation (evaluation apprehension).
This sourceDecade-spanning review confirming the group-size/helping inverse relationship is robust across emergency, non-emergency, and field/lab settings, while noting moderating conditions.
- The transfer paragraph: when an alert fires to a large on-call channel with no designated primary, median time-to-acknowledge increases as the roster grows, for the same three reasons: any given engineer sees that no one else has acted and infers either that the alert is a false positive (pluralistic ignorance), that someone more appropriate will handle it (diffusion of responsibility), or that paging up on a trivial alert would be costly to their reputation (evaluation apprehension).
- Responsibility Diffusion
- The structural insight is robust: emergency response (bystanders not helping), organizational management (committees not deciding), software development (code reviews not happening), and ecological stewardship (shared resources deteriorating) all exhibit the same accountability-erosion logic, as Latané and Nida (1981) catalogued in their decade-long review of group-size effects on helping.
This sourceDecade-spanning review confirming that the group-size-helping inverse relationship generalizes across emergency, non-emergency, organizational, and stewardship settings.
- The structural insight is robust: emergency response (bystanders not helping), organizational management (committees not deciding), software development (code reviews not happening), and ecological stewardship (shared resources deteriorating) all exhibit the same accountability-erosion logic, as Latané and Nida (1981) catalogued in their decade-long review of group-size effects on helping.
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