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The effect of bystanders on helping behaviour Single measured experiments concerned with helping behaviour were conducted. This experiment was concerned with the effect of bystanders on helping behaviour. Experiments were conducted in a public place within Monash University. Experimenter will drop a pile of 100 loose pages from a manilla folder, close to participants with the confederate either helping or not to retrieve the papers. The presence of bystanders help inhibits individual’s helping behaviour. The confederate helping reduces the number of participants willing to retrieve the papers, it is concluded that the effects of bystanders affects helping behaviour. Bryan & Test (1967) found out that presence of helping model increase the helping behaviour of an individual. Bryan and Test suggested that the process of conformity to social norms. More males were more likely stopped to render help to the female in changing her tyre if another male had been seen changing tyre earlier. People use actions of other people as cues to decide what an appropriate responses to specific situations should be ( Cialdini, Reno & Kallgre