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Bibb Latane Experiment
Bibb Latane was born on July 19th 1937 in New York City, New York. In 1958 he earned his BA at Yale in Culture and Behavior. The reason why he choose this field could stay up late and sleep in. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Minnesota. In 1968 he received two awards in association with J. M. Darley, the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) Behavioral Science Award and the Richard M. Elliot Memorial Award. He taught at several universities such as Columbia, the Ohio State, North Carolina and last Florida Atlantic University. In 1968 Latane and fellow Psychologist John Darley, conducted experiments in a laboratory using the bystander effect. The reason for this study due to in 1964, Kitty Genovese was
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