Bystander may refer to:
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''Bystander'' (novel), a 1930 novel by
Maxim Gorki
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an auth ...
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''Bystander'' (magazine), was a British weekly tabloid magazine
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Guilty Bystander'', a 1950 independent film production
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''Innocent Bystanders'' (film), a 1972 film directed by Peter Collinson
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Iowa Bystander'', an Iowa newspaper targeted toward an African-American audience
In music
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The Bystanders, a Welsh close harmony pop group, formed in 1962
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''Bystander'' (album), a 2011 six track extended play by Canadian alternative rock band Jets Overhead
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Innocent Bystanders, were a Perth-based band formed in 1983
Other meanings
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Bystander effect
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people. The theory was first proposed in 1964 after the murder of Kitty ...
, a social psychological phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer help in an emergency when other people are present
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Bystander effect (radiobiology), the phenomenon in which unirradiated cells exhibit irradiated effects as a result of signals received from nearby irradiated cells
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Bystander Nunatak, a geographical feature in Antarctica
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Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, a typology in genocide studies
See also
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Innocent bystander (disambiguation)
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Rubbernecking
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Witness
In law, a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, either oral or written, of what they know or claim to know.
A witness might be compelled to provide testimony in court, before a grand jur ...
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