Booze, Bars, and Bystander Behavior: People who Consumed Alcohol Help Faster in the Presence of Others.

People help each other less often and less quickly when bystanders are present. In this paper, we propose that alcohol consumption could attenuate or reverse this so-called bystander effect. Alcohol impairs people cognitively and perceptually, leading them to think less about the presence of others...

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Main Authors: Marco eVan Bommel, Jan-Willem eVan Prooijen, Henk eElffers, Paul evan Lange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00128/full