Running head: GENDER AND NUMBER OF BYSTANDERS This study was designed to look at the effects of gender and the number of bystanders on helping behavior. There were 128 participants in this study, compromising of students, faculty and also the general public in the area of Lexington, KY. The experiment was to drop pencils in an elevator when the correct number of bystanders were present to see who helped and who did not. The results of the study showed that the number of bystanders had no impact on whether the student who dropped his or her pencils was helped, however there was significant evidence that men were more likely to help than women. The Effects of Gender and the Number of Bystanders on Helping Behavior In the past decades, a large amount of research has been devoted to examining the connection between gender and helping behavior as well as the number ....

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