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Would you jump in to stop an assault? In a 2019 study published in the journal American Psychologist, researchers in Britain and the Netherlands reviewed surveillance footage of 200 violent altercations in three countries and found that bystanders had intervened nine out of 10 times. In many of the instances, several strangers worked together to calm a fight. The authors of the study found little variation in the rates of intervention in the three cities — Amsterdam; Cape Town; and Lancaster, England — suggesting that the human impulse to help strangers despite risks to one’s own person...

Would You Jump In to Stop an Assault? A recent video showed several men seeming to ignore an anti-Asian attack in Midtown. Yet research shows that most people are more than willing to intervene and help someone. Posters near the site of a violent assault on an Asian woman in Midtown Manhattan this week, showing the man sought in the attack. Video showed doormen in a nearby building watching the attack without intervening.Credit...Andrew Seng for The New York Times Imagine that you’re walking on the street and see a man viciously beating an older woman. What would you, just a passer-by, do?