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The Piliavin Page

Piliavin, I.M., Rodin, J.A. & Piliavin, J. (1969) Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 289 -99)

On this page you should find lots of useful stuff to help you in your learning of the subway field experiment.

Here is the most important page. Click here for a summary and evaluation of the Piliavin et al. (1969) study.

This page has lots of Core Studies Section A past questions that you might want to practice. Please don’t email me for the answers.

Here is a multi choise quiz,a matching quiz and a true or false quiz to test your knowledge of the study.

And here is a great page on Jamie’s psychblog where you can read the original study and more.