Bystander effect: Being a mute spectator to someone getting raped in a train

Kiran Krishnan
3 min readOct 22, 2021

When bad things happen by surprise, people just get frozen! What can we do about it?

A man abusing women
An abuser in act

What is bystander effect? According to this effect, “ the presence of people (bystanders) influences an individual’s likelihood of helping a person in an emergency situation”. Also, the greater the number of people present, the lesser an individual…

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Kiran Krishnan

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