A lost visitor to a large city tries to ask several of the passing city dwellers for directions.Few stop to help the visitor.Milgram would say that the city dwellers are

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Milgram's theory of urban overload suggests that people in large, densely populated cities are constantly bombarded with stimuli and information. In order to cope with this, they engage in strategies such as reducing attention overload, ignoring non-essential events, and fending off social contacts and keeping them superficial. In the scenario described, the city dwellers are likely exhibiting all of these strategies by not stopping to help the lost visitor.

A Lost Visitor to a Large City Tries to Ask