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In 2008, a young man took a drug overdose and killed himself during a live online chat watched by hundreds of viewers, after announcing his intentions to do so several hours earlier. Not a single viewer notified the authorities of what was transpiring. This case most clearly illustrates some of the dynamics involved in:

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Answer: The unresponsive bystander effect

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The unresponsive bystander effect is a term developed in social psychology to explain why peolple are less prone to provide help to someone in distress when there are other people present. The theory is that the greater the amount of bystanders, the less probable it is that someone will offer help.

In this example, even if they were not bodily present in the same place, the viewers of the live online chat became unresponsive bystanders.

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