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{{review|The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction|Catherine Sanderson|||Starts off brightly; shame about the tiresome agenda|}} | {{review|The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction|Catherine Sanderson|||Starts off brightly; shame about the tiresome agenda|}}This book is about an interesting — though controversial — psychological phenomenon: why do good, well adjusted people who could intervene to help a person in distress, not always help? | ||
This book is about an interesting — though controversial — psychological phenomenon: why do good, well adjusted people who could intervene to help a person in distress, not always help? | |||
It starts out brightly but quickly gets bogged down by its author’s own liberal agenda, and goes from the interesting question “why is it that people who could, and are disposed to, intervene, when given the opportunity to, don’t?” to the uninteresting one “why are people, and especially young white men, so horrid?” Undeniably true, is neither interesting nor capable of solution by a well-meaning social scientist. It isn’t ''just'' white males: that’s just your [[confirmation bias]] talking. Assume people will be dicks, and you won’t be disappointed. But, granted, that’s hardly a decent hook for a bestselling book. | It starts out brightly but quickly gets bogged down by its author’s own liberal agenda, and goes from the interesting question “why is it that people who could, and are disposed to, intervene, when given the opportunity to, don’t?” to the uninteresting one “why are people, and especially young white men, so horrid?” Undeniably true, is neither interesting nor capable of solution by a well-meaning social scientist. It isn’t ''just'' white males: that’s just your [[confirmation bias]] talking. Assume people will be dicks, and you won’t be disappointed. But, granted, that’s hardly a decent hook for a bestselling book. | ||