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    Overcoming Bystander Apathy and Non-Intervention in Alcohol-Poisoning Emergency Situations: Advancing Field Testing of Training-for-Intervention Theory via Thought Experiments

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    Authors
    Megehee, C.
    Strick, S.
    Woodside, Arch
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Megehee, Carol M. and Strick, Sandra K. and Woodside, Arch G. 2012. Overcoming Bystander Apathy and Non-Intervention in Alcohol-Poisoning Emergency Situations: Advancing Field Testing of Training-for-Intervention Theory via Thought Experiments. International Journal of Business and Economics. 11 (2): pp. 93-103.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Business and Economics
    Additional URLs
    http://econpapers.repec.org/article/ijbjournl/v_3a11_3ay_3a2012_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a93-103.htm
    ISSN
    16070704
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10181
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Consider groups of partying college students failing to helpfully assist someone in life- threatening distress from alcoholic poisoning. Anecdotal evidence (Davis and DeBarros, 2006) supports the social-norming theory subfield of unresponsive bystander research by Latane and Darley (1970) and others (Cialdini and Goldstein, 2004). This article is a call for structurally transforming the dynamics of the unfolding dramas in natural groups where alcoholic poisoning leading to death occurs. The present article includes the proposal for a quasi-experiment of natural groups (members of fraternities and sororities) in naturally occurring contexts (party situations) using placebo, a standardized training for intervention programs for servers (TIPS) designed for peer intervention, and two versions of advanced TIPS designed to structurally introduce a designated interventionist (DI). The DI and DI training designs are crafted to overcome the unresponsive bystander effect. The proposal includes thought experiments to explain both short- and long-term dependent measures of program impact in such quasi-experiments that include immediate measures of alcohol drinking and intervention knowledge, the medium-term creation and assignment of a group DI position, and the long-term interventionist behavior of groups appointing persons holding DI appointments versus groups not making such appointments

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