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According to Wikipedia, John M. Darley was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University. Darley is best known, in collaboration with Bibb Latané, for developing theories that aim to explain why people might not intervene at the scene of an emergency when others are present; this phenomenon is known as the bystander effect and the accompanying diffusion of responsibility effect. This work stemmed from the tragic case of Kitty Genovese, a New Yorker who was murdered in March 1964 while 38 people either witnessed or heard her struggling with the assailant. Darley also studied the effect of assessment on performance and proposed Darley's Law, which states that “The more any quantitative performance measure is used to determine an individual’s rewards, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more it will distort the action and thought patterns of those it is intended to monitor.”

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An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment (2001) (3745)
Bystander intervention in emergencies: diffusion of responsibility. (1968) (2551)
The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment (2004) (2114)
The Unresponsive Bystander: Why Doesn't He Help? (1972) (1980)
"From Jerusalem to Jericho": A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. (1973) (1262)
A hypothesis-confirming bias in labeling effects. (1983) (1177)
Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies. (1968) (1085)
Why do we punish? Deterrence and just deserts as motives for punishment. (2002) (854)
Expectancy confirmation processes arising in the social interaction sequence. (1980) (828)
Stereotype Threat Effects on Black and White Athletic Performance (1999) (740)
The Psychology of Compensatory and Retributive Justice (2003) (514)
Crowded minds: the implicit bystander effect. (2002) (301)
How Effective Are the Things People Say to Apologize? Effects of the Realization of the Apology Speech Act (1997) (297)
The psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism (2008) (294)
Incapacitation and Just Deserts as Motives for Punishment (2000) (276)
Psychological Aspects of Retributive Justice (2007) (244)
Feedback as a means of decreasing residential energy consumption. (1977) (240)
Identification, situational constraint, and social cognition: Studies in the attribution of moral responsibility (2006) (228)
Victim or perpetrator?: Defensive attribution of responsibility and the need for order and justice. (1973) (228)
Behavioral approaches to residential energy conservation (1978) (217)
Casuistry and social category bias. (2004) (215)
"White men can't jump": Evidence for the perceptual confirmation of racial stereotypes following a basketball game (1997) (204)
Moral Rules: Their Content and Acquisition (1990) (200)
Rising to the threat: Reducing stereotype threat by reframing the threat as a challenge (2010) (199)
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law (1995) (185)
The Effectiveness of Incentives for Residential Energy Conservation (1986) (181)
Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioural Science Investigation (2004) (176)
Social Organization for the Production of Evil (1992) (174)
Relating Attitudes to Residential Energy Use (1981) (167)
Social Comparison Theory: Self-Evaluation and Group Life (1987) (166)
Why are some moral beliefs perceived to be more objective than others (2012) (162)
Psychological research for the new energy problems: Strategies and opportunities. (1992) (152)
The Utility of Desert (2003) (151)
Predicting Summer Energy Consumption from Homeowners' Attitudes1 (1979) (145)
Increased Liking as a Result of the Anticipation of Personal Contact (1967) (145)
The Effects of Interaction Goals on Person Perception (1991) (125)
Building a Law-Abiding Society: Taking Public Views About Morality and the Legitimacy of Legal Authorities into Account When Formulating Substantive Law (2000) (120)
Appraising the threat of illness: a mental representational approach. (1988) (115)
Attribution and social interaction : the legacy of Edward E. Jones (1998) (112)
Restoration and Retribution: How Including Retributive Components Affects the Acceptability of Restorative Justice Procedures (2006) (111)
Diffusion of Energy-Conserving Innovations. (1981) (110)
Punishment and Beyond: Achieving Justice Through the Satisfaction of Multiple Goals (2009) (102)
Constructing other persons: A limit on the effect (1985) (101)
Morality in the Law: The Psychological Foundations of Citizens' Desires to Punish Transgressions (2009) (98)
The Perceived Objectivity of Ethical Beliefs: Psychological Findings and Implications for Public Policy (2010) (91)
Do groups always inhibit individuals responses to potential emergencies? (1973) (86)
Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy (2007) (86)
Intentions and Their Contexts in the Moral Judgments of Children and Adults. (1978) (78)
The Psychology of Meta-ethics (2014) (72)
Social influences on ethical behavior in organizations (2002) (71)
Self-evaluation vs. direct anxiety reduction as determinants of the fear-affiliation relationship (1966) (70)
Transgression Wrongfulness Outweighs its Harmfulness as a Determinant of Sentence Severity (2007) (69)
Constructive and Destructive Obedience: A Taxonomy of Principal‐Agent Relationships (1995) (68)
Multiple audience problem: a strategic communication perspective on social perception. (1990) (67)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Just Punishments: Research on Retributional Justice (2002) (67)
The compleat academic : a practical guide for the beginning social scientist (1987) (67)
Fear and social comparison as determinants of conformity behavior. (1966) (64)
People's Analyses of the Causes of Ability-Linked Performances1 (1980) (64)
Fear-provoking recommendations, intentions to take preventive actions, and actual preventive actions. (1973) (62)
Energy conservation techniques as innovations, and their diffusion (1978) (61)
Attribution of Responsibility for Accidents: A Negligence Law Analogy (1988) (55)
The Cognitive and Social Psychology of the Contagious Organizational Corruption (2005) (54)
Dispelling negative expectancies: The impact of interaction goals and target characteristics on the expectancy confirmation process. (1988) (54)
Making moral judgments. (1982) (54)
Retributive and restorative justice: Importance of crime severity and shared identity in people's justice responses (2009) (52)
Developmental aspects in students' course selection (1999) (50)
The “Clean for Gene” Phenomenon: The Effect of Students' Appearance on Political Campaigning1 (1972) (50)
When will people help in a crisis (1968) (48)
Fringe Dwellers: Processes of Deviance and Marginalization in Groups (2005) (48)
Mixed Messages: The Multiple Audience Problem and Strategic Communication (1991) (44)
The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (2009) (44)
Citizens' Sense of Justice and the Legal System (2001) (43)
The Ex Ante Function of the Criminal Law (2001) (42)
“I’m not as Thin as You Think I Am”: The Development and Consequences of Feeling Discrepant from the Thinness Norm (2002) (42)
The severity of intermediate penal sanctions: A psychophysical scaling approach for obtaining community perceptions (1995) (41)
Dual effects of implicit bystanders: Inhibiting vs. facilitating helping behavior (2009) (40)
MIXED MOTIVES AND RACIAL BIAS The Impact of Legitimate and Illegitimate Criteria on Decision Making (2006) (40)
The effects of expectancy on volunteering for an unpleasant experience. (1963) (39)
Bystanders "apathy". (1969) (39)
Symbolism and Incommensurability in Civil Sanctioning: Decision Makers as Goal Managers (2003) (39)
Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust@@@A Different Way of Seeing Things: How Perspective Drives Behavior@@@Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism@@@The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe (1995) (38)
Perceiving choice and constraint: the effects of contextual and behavioral cues on attitude attribution. (1989) (37)
Making the Punishment Fit the Crime and the Criminal: Attributions of Dangerousness as a Mediator of Liability1 (2000) (37)
Effect of forced assocation upon voluntary choice to associate. (1968) (36)
Altruism and Human Kindness: Internal and External Determinants of Helping Behavior (1978) (36)
Methods for the Study of Evil-Doing Actions (1999) (34)
A victim-centered approach to justice? Victim satisfaction effects on third-party punishments. (2012) (34)
Yes, I Did it, but Don't Blame Me: Perceptions of Excuse Defenses (2003) (34)
Children's Perceptions of Procedural Justice. (1984) (33)
Heightened damage assessment as a result of the intentionality of the damage‐causing act (1990) (31)
“I Am Moral, But You Are Deterred”: Differential Attributions About Why People Obey the Law1 (2002) (31)
Reducing the Biasing Effect of Perpetrator Attractiveness in Jury Simulation (1982) (31)
Answering behavioral questions about energy efficiency in buildings (1987) (29)
Is This Tactic Ethical? Biased Judgments of Ethics in Negotiation (1999) (29)
Psychological strategies to reduce energy consumption: project summary report (1979) (28)
The Role of Deterrence in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules: At Its Worst When Doing Its Best (2005) (28)
Possible Approaches, Actual Approaches (1993) (26)
Political Ideology and Reactions to Crime Victims: Preferences for Restorative and Punitive Responses (2011) (26)
Causation, Contribution, and Legal Liability: An Empirical Study (2001) (26)
Procedural strategies for gaining deference: Increasing social harmony or creating false consciousness? (2001) (25)
Power Asymmetries and the Ethical Atmosphere in Negotiations (2001) (25)
Social Roles as Interaction Competencies (1982) (24)
Effects of Necessary, Sufficient, and Indirect Causation on Judgments of Criminal Liability (1998) (24)
On the effectiveness of deviant- and conventional-appearing communicators: A field experiment (1974) (23)
Differences in Punitiveness Across Three Cultures: A Test of American Exceptionalism in Justice Attitudes (2014) (22)
How Television News Viewers Deal with Facts that Contradict Their Beliefs: A Consistency and Attribution Analysis1 (1976) (22)
Community standards of criminal liability and the insanity defense (2005) (22)
What's Wrong With Harmless Theories of Punishment (2008) (21)
Objectivist vs. Subjectivist Views of Criminality: A Study in the Role of Social Science in Criminal Law Theory (1998) (21)
The Dynamics of Authority Influence in Organizations and the Unintended Action Consequences (2001) (20)
COLORBLINDNESS AND DIVERSITY: CONFLICTING GOALS IN DECISIONS INFLUENCED BY RACE (2008) (18)
Community Standards for Defining Attempt (1996) (18)
The Plasticity of Harm in the Service of Criminalization Goals (2012) (18)
Judge Thy Neighbor (1995) (18)
The Purposeful-Action Sequence and the "Illusion of Control" (1990) (18)
Explaining Value (1994) (17)
Trust in Organizations: Frontiers of Theory and Research (1998) (17)
Community attitudes on the family of issues surrounding the death of terminal patients. (1996) (16)
Morally Questionable Tactics: Negotiations between District Attorneys and Public Defenders (2001) (16)
On the Unlikely Prospect of Reducing Crime Rates by Increasing the Severity of Prison Sentences (2005) (15)
When the association between appearance and outcome contaminates social judgment: a bidirectional model linking group homogeneity and collective treatment. (2009) (14)
Justifying Board Diversity (2011) (14)
Patriots, politics, and the Oklahoma City bombing (2009) (13)
An information-processing model of retributive moral judgments based on "legal reasoning." (1991) (13)
Social Comparison Motives in Ongoing Groups (2008) (13)
A Naive Psychological Analysis of Counteraggression (1978) (12)
Mutable Theories that Organize the World (1995) (12)
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Self-Defeating Behavior (1989) (12)
A “Classic” Revisited: Students' Immediate and Delayed Evaluations of a Warm/Cold Instructor (1999) (11)
The Psychology of Punishment: Intuition and Reason, Retribution and Restoration (2011) (11)
Morality Influences How People Apply the Ignorance of the Law Defense (2007) (11)
When Does Knowledge Become Intent? Perceiving the Minds of Wrongdoers (2012) (10)
Identification, Situational Constraint, and Social Cognition (2008) (10)
Citizens' Assignments of Punishments for Moral Transgressions: A Case Study in the Psychology of Punishment (2010) (10)
Feedback as a means of decreasing residential energy consumption. Report PU/CES 34 (1976) (9)
Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging (2008) (9)
Actors and Observers Revisited: Correspondence Bias, Counterfactual Surprise, and Discounting in Successive Judgments of Constrained Behavior (1993) (9)
Attribution and alternate possibilities: Identification and situational constraint as factors in moral cognition (2006) (8)
Interpersonal expectancy effects: a future research agenda (1980) (8)
Interpersonal expectations: Introduction to research on interpersonal expectations (1993) (8)
Testing Competing Theories of Justification (2003) (7)
Toward a More Deontological Approach to the Ethical Use of Social Influence (2001) (7)
An introduction to the hiring process in academic psychology. (1981) (6)
The Limits of Our Archival Stance (cont.): We Fail to Contribute to Policy Debates (2001) (6)
Community Perceptions of Allowable Counterforce in Self-Defense and Defense of Property (1999) (6)
Doing Wrong Without Creating Harm (2010) (6)
Increased conformity to a fellow deviant as a function of prior deviation (1974) (5)
A mathematical model for social influences on perceptual judgments (1977) (5)
Psychological strategies to reduce energy consumption: first annual progress report (1976) (5)
Gaining Traction for Psychology in the Public Arena (2002) (5)
Protracted Asymmetrical Conflict Erodes Standards for Avoiding Civilian Casualties (2005) (5)
Must Torts Be Wrongs? An Empirical Perspective (2012) (5)
Organizations as a source of immoral behavior (1994) (4)
Justice, Liability, and Blame (2019) (4)
Golden Rules and Leaden Worlds: Exploring the Limitations of Tit-for-Tat as a Social Decision Rule (2001) (3)
The Plasticity of Harm in the Service of Punishment Goals: An Experimental Demonstration (2011) (3)
Is Justice Just Us? Using Social Science to Inform Substantive Criminal Law (1996) (3)
Punitiveness Towards Users of Illicit Drugs: A Disparity between Actual and Perceived Attitudes (2011) (3)
"FROM JERUSALE M T O JERICHO": A STUDY O F SITUATIONA L AN D DISPOSITIONAL VARIABLE S IN HELPING BEHAVIOR 1 (1973) (3)
The Role of Power in Social-Exchange Relationships (2021) (3)
Social construction of evil (1991) (3)
The Importance of Being Earnest--and Ethical. (1980) (2)
Psychologists in Space. (1987) (2)
Psychologists seek the unexpected, not the negative, to provoke innovative theory construction (2004) (2)
Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays@@@Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945@@@Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory@@@Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (1996) (2)
Is This Tactic Ethical? Judgments of Ethics in Negotiation (1999) (2)
Articles: The Utility of Desert (2019) (1)
For the Job Seeker…How to Do Well in the Academic Job Interview (1993) (1)
Conflict Between Community Views and Criminal Codes (2019) (1)
The Compleat Academic (2021) (1)
On Managing the Faculty—Graduate Student Research Relationship (2021) (1)
Examining the Multifaceted Nature of Psychology (1992) (1)
Liability for Risk: Citizens' Perspectives on Liability for Creation of Risk and Loss of Chance (2007) (1)
Pluralistic Ignorance and Punitiveness Towards Illicit Drug Users: Reactions to the Drug Fiends of Yesteryear and the Politicians of Today (2010) (1)
Criminal Law as an Instrument of Behavioral Control: Should Deterrence Have a Role in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules? (2002) (1)
Dear Editor, This review is late because . . . (1985) (1)
Moral Dilemma Scale (2014) (0)
The psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism q (2008) (0)
My Father, Jack Darley (1992) (0)
Help in making sense of Goffman. (1990) (0)
Getting Ahead of the Curve: Anticipating Future Policy Needs in Today’s Research (2002) (0)
Doctrines of Excuse: When Is One’s Rule Violation Blameless? (2019) (0)
Doctrines of Grading: What Degree of Punishment Is Deserved for One’s Blameworthy Violation? (2019) (0)
A mixed bag: Various environmental influences on health and well-being. (1988) (0)
Riding a Bicycle is Not a Dangerous Activity: Strict Liability Standards in Mundane Cases. (2010) (0)
"[S]ettling for empirical desert because we can readily ascertain it is a bit like searching (2008) (0)
Torts as (Only) Wrongs? An Empirical Perspective (2012) (0)
Our Archival Stance Can Be Costly (2001) (0)
Resolving social conflicts. (1969) (0)
Creating Harm without Doing Wrong (2010) (0)
Sense-Making Before and After September 11 (2001) (0)
Doctrines of Culpability: When Is One’s Violation of a Legal Rule Blameworthy? (2019) (0)
Doing Wrong without Doing Harm (2009) (0)
Trust n Organuations: Frontiers; of t*89 and Resevrch (2016) (0)
When Does Knowledge Become Intent?: Perceiving the Minds of Wrongdoers (2011) (0)
Just Deserts Motive for Punishment Measure (2015) (0)
Chapter 10. Behavioral Issues of Punishment, Retribution, and Deterrence (2013) (0)
Decoding Multiple Subject fMRI Data using Manifold based Representation of Cognitive State Neural Signatures (2020) (0)
Q&A with John Darley (2006) (0)
Doctrines of Justification: When Should It Be Lawful for One to Engage in Conduct That Normally Would Constitute a Violation? (2019) (0)
Psychology/ By John M. darley, Sam Glucksberg, Ronald A. Kinchla (1986) (0)
Community Standards and the Criminal Law (2019) (0)
Working over television. (1978) (0)
Exit Ethics: The Management of Downsizing Among the Russian Officer Corps (2001) (0)
The Tradition of Experimentalism in Psychology (2001) (0)
Rage and reason: What the fMRI tells us about the dynamics of preferences for restitution or retribution: (633912013-098) (2004) (0)
Responses to Perceived Organizational Wrongdoing: Do Perceiver Characteristics Matter? (2001) (0)
Annual Review of Psychology (1971) (0)
Guest editors' introduction to the special issue (1994) (0)
Responding to Emergencies: A Social Psychological Analysis. (1978) (0)
Moral Luck, Loss of Chance, and Legal Liability (2015) (0)
Doctrines of Criminalization: What Conduct Should Be Criminal? (2019) (0)
Emphasizing Environmental Deficits: An Approach to the Reversal of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies about Minority Children. (1982) (0)
Social Psychology from the Symbolic Interactionism Perspective. (1989) (0)
Adventures in Rejectionland (2011) (0)
Implicit Theories as Conceptualized by an Attribution Researcher (2016) (0)
Advancing social psychology. (1965) (0)
Technology Makes the Difference: Nurturing the Future (2002) (0)
Everthing You Always Wanted to Know About Research But Were Afraid to Ask (Your Advisor) (2021) (0)
Collective Punishment: When is Our Group Responsible for Our Actions? (2004) (0)
The bystander: Behavior, law, ethics. (1979) (0)
The Hiring Process in Academia (2021) (0)
Student Political Campaigners: Who Campaigns and What Effect Does It Have on Them? (1973) (0)

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