Monday, December 1, 2008

You did well Beatriz. You did well...

Well im taking psychology in school right?
So the other day we were talking about how the more people there are when something bad happens to a person, the less likely they are to actually help the person is. Because one generally believes that someone else will take care of it.
Well then, they made a study to see the actual # of people who would help in a given situation.
They put actors in a park. And they made it so that the man an woman were arguing and the man was in the brink of physically hitting her. It was in PUBLIC! It was in a PARK and there were ALOT of people passing through. And of all the people that passed by, only 5 men out of 92 that passed by actually went and tried to help the woman. And out of the 100 women who passed by, only 15 helped. So in total it was about 10% of people who they saw there that helped.
When I heard this i couldn't beleive it. So I made it so that next time I saw someone having car trouble or someone who was in need of help, I was going to go and try to offer help.
So today when Dave was driving back from the libray i saw that someone was having car trouble. So we parked the car and then went to help the person out.
The lady who was having car trouble didn't really need help.
But just the fact that I offered help to a complete stranger made me feel very good about myself.
^_^

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