From: Kitty Genovese

TorgoX on 2004-05-13T23:15:35

Dear Log,

«Social psychologists have been studying the diffusion of responsibility effect ever since Darley and Latane's influential studies that were motivated in part by the murder of Kitty Genovese in full view of 38 bystanders who did nothing to help. It seemed natural for us to assume that the effect could be generalized to e-mail requests.»

--"Why your e-mail requests get ignored"