The Good Samaritan Experiment: Why do people help each other? - Psychology Experiments | Academy...

The Good Samaritan Experiment was conducted in 1973 by John Darley and Daniel Batson at Princeton University’s Theological Seminary with participants who were studying to become religious leaders. The researchers hoped to discover whether helping is more motivated by personal characteristics or by the environment.

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**Think Further Questions
1. When you are deciding whether to help someone, what factors do you consider?
2. How has “hurriedness” impacted your decisions to help others?
3. Based on this experiment, what can we do as a society to encourage helping behaviors?

**Contents
00:00 - Problem
00:18 - Here’s Why
00:40 - The Good Samaritan Experiment
01:40 - How It Works
02:06 - Why Care?

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