A new scientific paper explains inhibitors to helping during a crisis and how to encourage people to do more.
The key inhibitors cluster around not wanting to assist and not being able to assist.You witness a multi-vehicle collision as you amble along the street, or your immunocompromised neighbour asks you to shop for them as a new virus spreads.
Overall, as expected, it is complicated. Multiple factors interact in multiple ways across multiple individual and collective norms and expectations, following multiple trajectories for multiple reasons leading to the same outcome of not helping.The study could perhaps have delved more fully into the vast science available in order to deepen the analysis. Part of understanding why people do not help in times of need might be linked to terminology removing responsibility from society.
How inhibiting are these phrases? We do not know, because as Kossowska and colleagues show, no one has looked at this specific topic, yet so many authors continue to use the terms without critique. There is so much science on the problems with these terms used uncritically while offering alternatives. There is also so much science on helping or not helping others. We lack investigations that combine the two.We need further work on any changes over time to gawking and rubbernecking.
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