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Diffusion of responsibility

The tendency for an individual to feel less responsible in the presence of others because responsibility is distributed among all the people present.


A phenomenon in which bystanders are relived of personal responsibility and do not intervene because they know that someone else could help.

Permanent link Diffusion of responsibility - Creation date 2021-12-05


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