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>> that led to a lot of studies looking at what's called the bystander effect, which is when people see someone in trouble, we are far less likely to reach out and help if we see that other people are around because we assume that means, hey, the other guy has it handled, when, in fact, if everybody thinks that way, nobody helps. >> unfortunately, more than four decades after the genovese murder jose sanchez suffers the same awful fate. the ambulance rushes him to the hospital, but it's too late. sanchez dies of a traumatic brain injury three days later. >> is it possible that immediate medica...

Looking at what's called the bystander effect, which is when people see someone in trouble, we are far less likely to reach out and help if we see that other people are around because we assume that means, hey, the other guy has it handled, when, in fact, if everybody thinks that way, nobody helps. >> unfortunately, more than four decades after the genovese murder jose sanchez suffers the same awful fate. the ambulance rushes him to the hospital, but it's too late. sanchez dies of a traumatic brain injury three days later. >> is it possible that immediate medical care would have made a differe...

Had about with her, including this young man himself. michael, who had been talking to the football players believed she was dead. that's how passed out she was. let's put aside the two alleged rapists who maintain their innocence. >> okay. >> megyn: a pack mentality. that so many people saw that girl in that condition, not one person stood up and helped her. >> no, not one. people do very poorly, and we know this, the bystander effect, they do poorly in groups. they do better alone in taking action, and thinking i don't want to be stepped out of the pack here, judged for it, maybe there's inf...

To expect that this kind of bystander effect could grip them and to be able to fight against them. that's what schools should do, too, it's not just about reading and writing and arithmetic, it's about character. >> megyn: to just stand up. what a hero that young man or woman would have been if they had said put that girl down right now. >> absolutely. >> megyn: and gotten her help. >> but here is the thing, that young girl, to a lot of these young people, is not a girl. she's somebody who's starring in a reality tv show broadcast for youtube or facebook so photographs could be shared. >> megy...

Everybody else thinking there must be some reservoir of knowledge as to why no one is act. to declare onc three -- it saysg about human beings and whether they are willing to raise their hand and disagree with a group. we are receipt ceno -- we are rp to do that. it's just the a rall i -- it's a rall is of this bystander effect. megyn: there was a book that talked about survivors. when an airplane goes down. people would be madly dashing towards the exit. but the facts show normally people sit there -- they are paralyzed in stone because they have never dealt with the situation before. they do...