A man calls for help, there are dozens of witnesses around, but no one intervenes. why? Is everyone really that indifferent to the lives of others? It turns out that it's not always about indifference. Psychologists discovered an amazing pattern: the more people there are, the less likely someone will come to the rescue. In one experiment, people even continued to calmly fill out questionnaires while the room filled with smoke. In our explanatory video # we talk about the most unusual psychological experiments, understand how the bystander effect works and why at a critical moment a crowd can be more dangerous than solitude.

A man calls for help, there are dozens of witnesses around, but no one intervenes. why? Is everyone really that indifferent to the lives of others? It turns out that it's not always about indifference. Psychologists discovered an amazing pattern: the more people there are, the less likely someone will come to the rescue. In one experiment, people even continued to calmly fill out questionnaires while the room filled with smoke. In our explanatory video # we talk about the most unusual psychological experiments, understand how the bystander effect works and why at a critical moment a crowd can be more dangerous than solitude.