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Alfred Mele, “Free Will: An Investigation” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Bystander Effect

There's a style of study called situationism that indicates that the situations in which we find ourselves have a really powerful influence on our behaviour. And i'll tell you about, i don't know, maybe one, maybe even three of these studies,. But we'll start with a study on what's called the bystander effect. A pair of psychologists decided that they would try to study this phenomenon. They want to find out if it matter how many people you think can hear the voice? Does that matter to your behaviour? That's one study among many. Am there's a neat study, but i don't remember the actual statistics, where a people are given a chance to help, either

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