When 68-year-old Mrs. Blake had a flat tire on a fairly isolated highway, she received help from a passerby in less than 10 minutes. One year later, when she had a flat tire on a busy freeway, an hour elapsed before someone finally stopped to offer assistance. Mrs. Blake's experience best illustrates

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Mrs. Blake's experience of waiting for an hour for someone to offer assistance on a busy freeway is an example of the bystander effect, which refers to the phenomenon where people are less likely to offer help or intervene in an emergency situation when others are present. This is likely due to diffusion of responsibility and social influence, where people assume that someone else will take action or follow the behavior of others around them. The fact that Mrs. Blake received help much more quickly on a less busy highway may suggest that there were fewer people around to create a diffusion of responsibility.

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