Sometimes onlookers fail to assist in an emergency because each person in the group decides that the situation is not really an emergency because no one else is acting alarmed or helping
This phenomenon is known as
A) diffusion of responsibility.
B) pluralistic ignorance.
C) social facilitation.
D) social responsibility norm violation.
Answer: B
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