... put onto each of them, and so on. The more witnesses to a victim's need for help, the less anyone feels responsible. To support this, Latane and Darley conducted the 'seizure experiment', in which the participants were male undergraduates who were to take part in a discussion about university life. Due to the confidentiality of the discussion they were sitting in cubicles alone, and connected to other participants via an intercom. In the first condition, there was one participant, and one confederate having an 'epileptic seizure'. In the second condition there was one participant, one confederate having the 'seizure' and one other confederate, and finally, in the last condition there was one participant, one confederate having the 'seizure', and five other confederates. As the discussion develops, the confederate having the 'seizure' sounds as if he is having a fit. Latane and Darley found that when the participant in the first ...

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