The Bystander Mentality in Teenagers

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 16, 2015

Last week a video of high school girls fighting in a McDonald's in Brooklyn went viral. No one interfered. Alban Boucher, a social worker, activist and dean of students at New Vision High School in Brooklyn and Karen Sobel Lojeski, a professor in the department of technology and society at Stony Brook University, talk about how the "bystander effect," the "no snitching" movement and social media affect the safety and wellness of teenagers.

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