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Diffusion of Responsibility

Diffusion of responsibility is the tendency for people to feel less personally accountable for acting when others are present who could also act. You will learn how this dynamic can suppress individual voice in a group, since each person assumes someone else will raise the concern.

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Bystander Effect and Diffusion of Responsibility, Explained

Covers Darley and Latané's bystander-intervention research showing that the presence of other people reduces any one individual's felt responsibility to help.