John watches a particular news program every night, which includes plenty of upsetting footage, fast-paced editing and music, along with intense eye-witness accounts of crime and disaster events around the world. Today he happened to witness two people get into a bloody fight at a bar but didn't bother with calling help/police. Which theory or phenomenon explains this best?

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Desensitization refers to the reduced emotional responsiveness to a negative stimulus after repeated exposure to it, which explains John's lack of reaction to the fight.

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