Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files Podcast

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files Podcast


Ep 253: How to Prevent Violence in Your Neighborhood

January 11, 2016

Passengers on an airplane spring to action when a stewardess needs help - but a neighborhood in New York City does very little when a woman is attacked. What's different? How can we take what we learn from the airplane and apply it to the attack? Lecturing the neighborhood residents probably won't help. Can we do anything to the way the neighborhood is laid out to encourage interaction among residents and a greater sense of interdependency among them? That's what we explore in this episode of The Psych Files.