The Surprising Lesson Rats Can Teach Us About Human Behavior

Rats: they're just like us!
The Surprising Lesson Rats Can Teach Us About Human Behavior

Helping others isn't restricted only to humans. And apparently being peer-pressured into ignoring others isn't that special to humanity either.

Read more below about a new rat study that shows rats aren't so different from humans after all.

A RECENT STUDY SHOWED THAT RATS ARE LESS LIKELY TO HELP A FELLOW RAT IF DISINTERESTED RATS ARE AROUND. This phenomenon is called the bystander effect,
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT IS A PHENOMENON WHERE PEOPLE FAIL TO HELP OTHERS IN EMERGENCIES. Studies have shown there's a number of reasons for this, includi
THE MURDER OF KITTY GENOVESE IS THE MOST FAMOUS EXAMPLE. The originating, textbook example of the bystander effect is the stabbing of Kitty Genovese i
IN THE RAT STUDY, RESEARCHERS TESTED WHETHER A RAT WOULD FREE A TRAPPED COMPANION. They found a rat would free another rat if it was alone, but if the
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