Homeless Man Research Paper

Words: 501
Pages: 3

This question is supposed to aim at in-group self-categorisation, noticing, ambiguity, the question if the person is seen as deserving of help, diffusion of responsibility (and maybe anonymity).

1. Imagine you are going to work on a dark winter morning. It is 4oC and the lawn next to you is still slightly covered in frost. The road is quite. In fact, no one is there except a bearded homeless man in unwashed, worn out clothes, with holes in his jeans and his shoes, who is lying next to the stairs of a tube entrance. You pass him noticing he is awake, but he doesn’t look at you. He is hiding his face in his arms.
On a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means you would at all, and 5 means that you are very much likely to, how likely would you be to help this man?

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Imagine you are going to work on a dark winter morning. It is 4oC and the lawn next to you is still slightly covered in frost. The road is already busy. In fact, many people are going to work and rushing in and out of the tube entrance, which next to lays a bearded homeless man in unwashed, worn out, clothes, with holes in his jeans and his shoes. You pass him noticing he is awake, but he doesn’t look at you, as he is hiding his face in his arms.
On a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means you would at all, and 5 means that you are very much likely to, how likely would you be to help this man?

3. Imagine you are going to work on a dark winter morning. It is 4oC and the lawn next to you is still slightly covered in frost. The road is quite. In fact, no one is there except a man in a clean, designer suit, who is lying next to the stairs of a tube entrance. You pass him noticing he is awake, but he doesn’t look at you. He is hiding his face in his arms.
On a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means you would at all, and 5 means that you are very much likely to, how likely would you be to help this