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ESPN
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| 1. How could the frustration-aggression hypothesis explain why Ben Wallace attacked Ron Artest?
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| 2. Analyze Artest's behavior toward the fan who threw the cup from a neo-associationistic account of aggression.
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| 3. After Artest jumped into the stands, his teammate Stephen Jackson followed him and began punching fans. How might Jackson's gender (male) and hometown (Houston, TX) have influenced his aggressive behavior?
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| 4. What situational factors are involved in why the brawl escalated to such an extent?
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ABC News
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| 5. Respond to the question ABC News asks, "What Would You Do?" What situational factors would push you to help, what factors would prevent you from helping?
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| 6. Why did bystanders have different reactions to the woman and the homeless man? Why did giving the homeless man a name increase the probability of helping?
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| 7. Do you think that knowing about the Darley and Latané findings on bystander intervention would affect bystanders' behavior when they see someone who suddenly appears to be seriously ill or is involved in an accident? (To find out if it really does, see Beaman, Barnes, Kleentz, & McQuirk, 1978.)
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| Note: here is the follow-up story about Linda Hamilton, http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/story?id=7125839&page=1
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