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Social psychologists have observed people's willingness to pick up dropped coins or pencils in elevators in order to study the

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They are likely to engage the bystander effect. This is a phenomenon in social psychology in which an individual is likely to not act when there are greater people are present when there is a person experiencing a distress or emergency situations.

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