Question

In certain situations, the larger the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that one of them will help someone in trouble. This result is explained by________.

Answer 1

diffusion of responsibility

Explanation:

Diffusion of responsibility: In social psychology, the term diffusion of responsibility is defined as a phenomenon in which an individual tends to less likely to carry out responsibility for inaction or action in the presence of other persons. This is considered as a type of attribution in which a person assumes that the other person might have already taken the responsibility or is responsible for it.

Example: An individual is going on a road and have seen that a man got injured with one of the vehicles. There were a lot of other people present on the road and then he or she feels that the injured man will get help from someone else.

In the question above, the given statement's result is explained by the diffusion of responsibility.