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Kayla Lee Social Psychology November 26, 2018

Reflection 5

Conformity is seen as a change in a person’s behavior or opinions as a result of real or imagined pressure from another person or group of people. I remember a couple weeks ago, I attended a bringing in the bystander facilitator training and they talked about a bystander is and how much a bystander can affect an event or prevent an issue. In this training we talked about the stories in which people were bystanders of the events but never did anything for the victim. One of the events that was discussed was the Stoke Hall Gang Rape that occurred in 1987 where three men raped a woman in a residence hall at the university. The bystanders that witnessed this event were two girls, an RA, the girl’s roommates, other guys, people in the hallway and people in the streets. After listening to this story, I learned that these witnesses had every opportunity to intervene at every stage but did until the two females learned that the victim was a friend and not a stranger. The resident warned the men to leave the girl’s room but never went to her aid. According to Aronson, this is seen as the bystander effect. And this occurs when the presence of another bystander inhibits action. Because there was more than one witness it was difficult for others to act. In the book, the author states that people do not act if they don’t see anyone going to the aid of the victim and this is what resulted.

I thought long and hard about this story because there were many ways that this could have been stopped. I felt that the RA could have went in to the aid of the victim because just telling the guys to leave the room did not do anything. Or they could have at least called the police if there was a possible chance that they would be putting themselves at risk for going through the same thing. I learned that conformity can be dangerous in certain situations, conformity is neither good or bad, it is important to watch how we practice such....