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The question this paper is trying to answer is how to help people while they were in distress. Helping people in distress states, "an act governed by ethical norms and precepts taught to children at home, in school, and church." Internalization of these standards is different personality studies show that the way people act in situations similar to this, are going to be different. Testing these acts of helping people and possible situations from a fresh viewpoint have not been done. Which is the goal of Darley and Batson's study. The Bible's "Good Samaritan" was their inspiration.

A researcher who is worth their salt, will find similar studies, and studies on situations of morality. Recently experiments have been examinations on bystander intervention in emergency situations, failed in finding a measure (Bicknam, 1969: Darley&Latane, 1968: Korte, 1960). Associates with helping behavior were successfully measured such as authoritarianism, social desirability and social responsibility. Personality and situation variables are applicable to help which parable with a valuable suggestion.

Dispositional and situational variables devise two tests when being measured. Personality questionnaires should establish types of

A few extraneous variables were controlled for in the study. To simulate the aspects of the parable of the Good Samaritan under experimental control, and traffic control in the area is also needed. Darley and Batson use the faculty members in their research by having them take longer routes to their offices, which avoided the alley with the people crying for help. The faculty members were willing to comply. As for the traffic this was more difficult to control for due to the irregularity.

R= randomization X= the Incident 02=amount of help

The experiment is based on 6 groups dictated by the variables and should be considered a double-blind experiment, and the assistant was blind with respect to the personality scores. The victims were blind to personality scale scores and experimental conditions. First, the seminary of students were asked to give an impromptu speech on a passage what jobs or professions do seminary students subsequently enjoy most and in what jobs were most effective? The others on were on the parable of the Good Samaritan. After the students were informed they were either in, a high level of hurry, intermediate level of hurry, or low level of hurry. This measured on a nominal scale just like help and task relevancy. Lastly the measure on the amount of help they gave the victim on a scale from 0-5 was taken.

The dependent variable "helping behavior" had three hypotheses, which the study was based on. The first hypothesis says that people who encounter a situation that asks for a "helping respon

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