Cyberbullying: Effect of emergency perception on the helping tendencies of bystanders

摘要: Abstract The effect of the emergency perception bystanders cyberbullying victims on helping behaviors is often neglected in research cyberbullying. In this study, we explored influence cognitive factor cyber-bystanders’ tendencies as well elucidated possible underlying processes. results two studies were reported. Study 1, 150 undergraduates read a true case girl experiencing indicated that when participants perceived victim’s situation to be more critical (i.e., higher perception), their stronger, partly through increased state empathy followed by feelings responsibility help. 2, randomly assigned 300 groups. low group same whereas high contained additional information victim. expressed stronger than did group. This was caused victim an situation, which not only strengthened participants’ directly but also indirectly increasing and