In the Latané and Rodin (1969) experiment in which participants apparently heard a woman in an adjacent room fall from a chair, it was found that the bystander effect was reduced when:

a. the participants were strangers to one another
b. an authority figure was among the participants
c. the participants were friends
d. the participants were of the same sex
e. the magnitude of the victim's apparent distress was increased


Ans: c

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