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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Bystanders"”.
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The role and impact of bullying bystanders in an urban school setting
… in southern New Jersey. The intervention of bystanders, taking into account their cultural awareness of snitching was explored. The bystanders' relationship with the bully and victim, and the bystanders' method of intervention were examined. An original survey of bullying scenarios was …
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Bystanders' experiences of school bullying following a self-debasing cognitive distortion restructuring intervention
… that the negative emotions and behaviours that bystanders expressed in reactions to witnessing bullying could have stemmed from self-debasing cognitive distortions and errors in thinking patterns which included personalisation, catastrophising, over-generalisation and selective abstraction. For …
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The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence Public Service Announcements on Help Seeking, Attitudes, and Bystanders
<p>The current study used the IPVAS-R, CTS2S, Bystander Efficacy Scale, Bystander Intentions to Help Scale, Bystander Behaviors Scale, and the MHSS to test the hypothesis that the IPV PSA would produce greater intentions to seek help in the event of victimization, lower minimization scores, and …
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Not-so-innocent bystanders? Investigating non-antigen specific CD8+ T cell activation in autoimmune prognosis
Clinical outcome in patients with the same diagnosis of immune disease varies substantially. Understanding the biology of prognosis could greatly improve treatment options for patients suffering from more severe forms and reduce treatment-related side effects for those on a milder disease course. …
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Gender differences in bystanders’ intention to help towards female and male victims of domestic violence: a web-based online survey
The purpose of the current research is to explore the attitudes towards domestic violence victims by looking at empathy, sexism and personality traits and the willingness to help domestic violence male and female victims. The project’s aim was to answer 4 main questions: Whether females experience …
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“Bad things happen [be]cause good people do nothing.” A study on how residents of Athlone and it's suburbs view their roles as bystanders
… factors impacting intervention or whether bystanders actually intervene. Other studies have looked at individual motivations for intervention, for example altruism/egoism. This study looks at how bystanders understand intervention and ultimately how they might perceive their roles as …
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Design and Evaluation of a Wearable System for Facial Privacy
… One major challenge that requires more focus is bystanders' privacy, as there are too few solutions that solve the issue. Of the solutions available, many of them do not give bystanders a choice in how their private data is used, Bystanders' privacy has become an afterthought when it comes to …
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Investigating the individual, interpersonal and contextual variables associated with secondary school students’ behaviour as bystanders in bullying interactions, and how these differ according to gender
The Supportive Schools Project (SSP) was a three year randomised cluster comparison trial conducted from 2005 to 2007, involving 21 Perth metropolitan secondary schools from the Catholic Education s ector. The SSP aimed to develop, implement and empirically evaluate a whole -of-school bullying …
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Bystander Behavior: Understanding Undergraduate Male Involvement in Dangerous Drinking Situations
… explores to what extent male college student bystanders involved in dangerous drinking situations intervene and to what extent information and training in specific bystander skills improves their likelihood to be effective, engaged bystanders. Many germane themes emerge in this study, …
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Everybody's got a story: examining the building of empathy and understanding for the bully, the bullied, and the bystander through digital storytelling
… for victims of bullying, bullies and bystanders prior to and after the completion of a digital storytelling project. Using Likert scale data, along with an in-depth content analysis of the stories and presentations the students produced, the study explored whether participation in this …
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Investigating the Dynamics of Bystander Behavior in Child Sexual Abuse Incidents
… This exploratory research examines what bystanders choose to do once they recognize that a minor may be in sexual jeopardy. Using a mixed methods approach involving survey research and case study analyses, this study measures the characteristics of bystanders, their attitudes toward …
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The Investigation of Helping Behavior in the Virtual World
… study by Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky on rescuers and bystanders during the Holocaust (Midlarsky, Fagin-Jones and Nemeroff, 2006). The present study examined the differences in personality variables of individuals who were either rescuers or bystanders in a peer bullying situation that occurred in the …
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Predictors of College Women’s Prosocial Bystander Intervention: Personal Characteristics, Sexual Assault History and Situational Barriers
… 2000). Prosocial bystander behavior occurs when bystanders witnessing a potentially dangerous situation positively intervene. Recent research suggests that prosocial bystander behavior, in both men and women, can play a role in the prevention of sexual assault (Banyard, 2007). However, little …
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Bullying prevention and intervention in education through the visual arts: an instrumental case study
… concerns. The effects on victims, offenders, and bystanders can be long lasting and can affect an individual’s development (AERA, 2013).</p> <p>The impact of bullying on education is profound. As a result of bullying, a child’s academic achievement can be greatly affected (Petrosino, Guckenburg, & …
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A Social Ecological Approach To Cyber Bullying
… to examine the perceptions and attributions of bystanders to cyber bullying. A scenario was constructed that described a hypothetical middle school students' experience with cyber bullying. Middle school participants (N = 1,151) were randomly assigned to one of six experimental conditions that …
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Power, Gender, and Representation in the Italian Renaissance Court: The Cultural Patronage of Caterina Sforza (1463--1509)
… women like her were active participants, not bystanders, in the cultural practices that were so important to the power negotiations of the Renaissance court. Furthermore, it provides a study of the cultural practices of a newly-established dynasty, namely the Riario of Imola and Forli.
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The Influence Of Individual And Perceived Organizational Characterisitics On Teacher Interventions In Bullying Situations
… intervention theories. Viewing teachers as bystanders creates an opportunity to apply our knowledge of bystander behavior and theory to the development of programs and policies which emphasize the importance of teacher beliefs in shaping intervention decisions. School social workers can …
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Radiation-induced bystander fibroblasts both reduce and amplify micronuclei induction through the reciprocal bystander effect and the secondary bystander effect
… effect. These can be considered the "secondary bystanders." Human AG01522 fibroblasts were irradiated with 250 kVp X-rays and co-cultured with unirradiated fibroblasts to generate bystander cells, which were then cocultured with one of the three types of secondary bystander cells. The …
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Passenger Traits That Predict the Bystander Intervention Model Steps During an Inflight Assault on a Flight Attendant
… including the actions of other passengers (bystanders) who may witness the assault. There is ample literature on bystander reactions to similar events such as bullying, medical emergencies, injuries, and violent attacks, but none dedicated to a flight attendant assault or passenger reactions …
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Assessing the effect of architectural design on real estate values : a qualitative approach
… on the surrounding buildings, tenants, and bystanders, then there must exist a 'socially optimal' level of design that may or may not be equal to the optimal level as measured by the private market. Through interviews with industry leaders and policy makers, and a careful reading of relevant …
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