Accessing emergency services today is practically synonymous with dialing 911. The central emergency number connects United States-based callers to police, fire and EMS resources, streamlining aid in ...

New Yorkers have long been haunted by the story of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender who was raped and stabbed outside her apartment building in Queens in 1964. The most harrowing part of ...

The 1964 death of Kitty Genovese profoundly affected my life. I never met the young woman, but her name has lived in my heart for 60 years. So, when CBS Sunday Morning mentioned her name last weekend, ...

Later, she would become interested in the 1964 Kitty Genovese case, in which a woman was murdered outside of her New York ...

On 13 March 1964 Kitty Genovese was murdered in Queens, in New York. Kitty was attacked in the early hours of the morning outside her apartment block. It was reported at the time that dozens of ...

The murder of a 28-year-old bar manager named Kitty Genovese 50 years ago this week is one of America's most famous crimes, appearing in psychology textbooks as a classic example of the "bystander ...

Psychological experts explain why we “freeze” during danger, and what we can do to fight that instinct. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was killed outside her apartment building in densely populated ...

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But plenty of people walk on by. It’s not a modern phenomenon. In New York in 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered. It was reported that at least 30 neighbours witnessed the ...

Social psychologists Bibb Latané and John Darley popularized the concept of the bystander effect following the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964. The 28-year-old woman ...

Later, she would become interested in the 1964 Kitty Genovese case, in which a woman was murdered outside of her New York apartment. At the time, the New York Times reported that 37 people ...