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I remember in my intro to psychology class that our teacher told us that when someone is standing on the side of a building thinkig about jumping off that a group of people will usually encouarge them to jump. What is the name of this effect?

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is it "bystander effect"?
And the  LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as  one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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I think I'm thinking of something else. From how I understand it the bystander effect is when people don't intervine to help someone in  need. For example, if someone where hit by a car on a street in the heart of a city many people may see the man in the road bleeding but not call the police because there are so many people around and they figure someone else will call the cops, that is the bystander effect as I understand it. I belevie I'm thinking of a different effect in regards to my original post in this thread

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Re:encouraging suicide?
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2009, 09:33:57 PM »
yeah i think your right, thats the bystander effect.


dont know what the other might be, sorry ???
And the  LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as  one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

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Not directly relevant but still ...

In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive ("Todestrieb") is the drive towards death, destruction and non-existence. It was first proposed by Sigmund Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The death drive opposes Eros, the tendency towards cohesion and unity. The death drive is sometimes referred to as "Thanatos" in post-Freudian thought, although this term has no basis in Freud's own work.

 

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