Your textbook suggests that the sheer number of bystanders who observed the death of Kitty Genovese may have been a factor in these people's decision not to give her assistance because of:

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The diffusion of responsibility is the belief that other people will take action and therefore an individual does not take responsibility for their own actions or inactions. In the case of Kitty Genovese, the large number of bystanders created a diffusion of responsibility, as each person assumed someone else would take action and therefore did not feel personally responsible for intervening.

Your Textbook Suggests That the Sheer Number of Bystanders Who