Blackwall Discussion Thread - The Resolve!

There was something about Blackwall's story that reminded me of several psychological phenomena at play. So far, I've seen examples of Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect, the Milgram experiment and the Freeze response.
Now, while it's a tragic story regardless of what's true or not, the general gist is that a woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered outside her apartment in front of 38 witnesses. Despite calling for help, everyone who saw it had froze because they didn't know what to do or were hoping someone else would do something about it. At that time, there was no 911 emergency number, anyone who wanted to report an incident had to call the local precinct. Problems with that story revealed that the media had taken too many liberties for the sake of sensationalism, as some only heard a cry, others didn't see Kitty, someone DID call the police, etc. Still, it was what led researchers to dub the bystander effect in that people are less likely to act in an emergency when there are multiple witnesses. The thought process is something like expecting that someone else would know what to do and will step forward.
The two good things that did arise was the public's disgust that it happened and investigation into human behavior is still going strong 50 years later. The second was that it was this incident that started the 911 emergency line.
The Milgram's experiment revealed a horrifying tendency of humans to instinctively defer to those who appear to be of higher authority, even at the cost of harming a fellow human. Every time test subjects questioned a volunteer who got an answer wrong, they had to administer an electric shock that steadily grew lethal. Despite complaints of a heart condition, the volunteer was still given shocks until they were supposedly "dead" because the researcher in the lab coat told the test subject to continue.
As for the freeze response, it's a fairly self explanatory reaction that when faced with a high stress situation that you can neither fight nor flee from, a disassociative state would occur to distance the person away from the trauma. Victims of assault, soldiers and accident survivors are known for going into this state and it's been linked to severe cases of PTSD.
Now as for where specifically I see these applied, Blackwall's men were probably going through the Milgram experiment, while Blackwall seemed to go through both the bystander and freeze effect.


Of course, I could just be full of it.