: Individuals monitor the behavior of others to determine if an emergency is actually occurring; if no one else is acting, they may conclude no action is needed.
In the early morning of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was attacked outside her apartment building in Kew Gardens, Queens. The initial report by The New York Times claimed that 38 neighbors witnessed the attack over a period of 30 minutes, yet none called the police or intervened until it was too late. kitty catherine
#### Decades later, investigative reports have clarified that many details of the original 1964 news story were inaccurate. : Individuals monitor the behavior of others to