In April 2010, a homeless man helped a young woman fend off an attacker in Queens, New York. For his trouble, he was stabbed and fell to the sidewalk where he laid in a pool of his own blood. When emergency aid arrived over an hour later, Hugo Tale-Yax was already dead. Horrifyingly, surveillance video revealed that 25 people walked past him while he lay dying on the street. These 25 people

exhibited what is known as the

a. mean worldview.
b. bystander effect.
c. instinctual nature of self-preservation.
d. weapons effect on observers.

B

Psychology

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Regarding her research on moral development, Carol Gilligan believes that male psychologists have, for the most part, defined moral maturity in terms of

a. justice and autonomy. b. caring and relationships. c. power and physical dominance. d. a mixture of common sense and logistics.

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