All In The Mind

When a young woman, Kitty Genovese was brutally killed in a prolonged attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help until too late. The case led to the naming of the phenomenon known as the Bystander Effect. The first of four compelling programs on influential cases in the history of psychology. NB: The All in the Mind podcast edition is a different program from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons. And, the streaming audio is on the BBC's website here.

Details below.

NOTE - we cannot bring you the podcast or transcript of this series because it comes from the BBC and the ABC does not hold copyright.

This week's podcast comes from All in the Mind archives instead. Details and transcript are below.

You can hear the BBC series again on their website as streaming audio. The link to that is also below.

Guests

John Darley
Professor of Psychology,
Princeton University.
http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/darley/

Harold Takooshian
Professor of Social Psychology,
Fordham University.
http://takooshian.socialpsychology.org/

Rachel Manning
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology,
Bristol, University of West England.
http://science.uwe.ac.uk/Staff/StaffPage.asp?StaffID=RL-MANNING

Samuel Freedman
Author and Professor of Journalism,
Columbia University
USA
http://www.samuelfreedman.com/

Geoff Rolls
UK based psychologist and author

Charles Skoller
Assistant district attorney assigned to the case of Kitty Genovese in 1964.

Joseph De May
Kew Gardens resident since 1974.
http://kewgardenshistory.com/aboutme.html

Further Information

This week's streaming audio for The story of Kitty Genovese
The streaming audio for this week's radio is available on the BBC Four website at this link.

This week's podcast - Count Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Neurology and the Novel
Details about this week's podcast, which is not the same as the broadcast version for copyright reasons.

Joseph De May's website about Queens, New York

Publications

Title: Classic Case Studies in Psychology
Author: Geoff Rolls
Publisher: Hodder Arnold, 2005
ISBN-13: 978-0340886922

Title: Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case
Author: A M Rosenthal, preface by Samuel Freedman
Publisher: Melville House Publishing, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1933633299

Title: The Kitty Genovese Murder and the Social Psychology of Helping: the parable of the 38 witnesses
Author: Rachel Manning, Mark Levine, Alan Collins
Publisher: American Psychologist, 62(6), 555-562, 2007

Music

CD title: Crescent
Track title: Wise One
Artist: John Coltrane
Duration: 0'12"
Composer: John Coltrane
CD details: Impulse
Publishing/Copyright: Rondor

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

Producer

Marya Burgess/Kyla Brettle

Reporter

Claudia Hammond