Diffusion of responsibility is a sociopsychological event in which the presence of others makes it less likely for those present to take responsibility for the situation at hand.
The bystander effect occurs when the presence of more witnesses to a crime, accident, or other event decreases the chances of any of them coming forward to help.
Ivan Pavlov’s dogs experiment was an instrumental scientific discovery that deserves the acclaim and spirited conversation that it entails to this day.
This brief introduction to consequentialism ethics explores consequentialism examples in real life, as well as its crossovers with other moral philosophies.