Bystander

A bystander a person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer or spectator.^[1]

• Bystander effect, a social psychological phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present
• Bystanders of bullying, the bystander in a bullying context
• Bystanders of scientific misconduct

In media

• Bystander (magazine), was a British weekly tabloid magazine
• Guilty Bystander, a 1950 independent film production
• Innocent Bystanders (film), a 1972 film directed by Peter Collinson
• Iowa Bystander, an Iowa newspaper targeted toward an African-American audience

In music

• Bystander (album), a 2011 six track extended play by Canadian alternative rock band Jets Overhead
• Innocent Bystanders, were a Perth based band formed in 1983

Other meanings

• Bystander effect (radiobiology), the phenomenon in which unirradiated cells exhibit irradiated effects as a result of signals received from nearby irradiated cells
• Bystander Nunatak, a geographical feature in Antarctica

See also

• Witness
• Innocent bystander (disambiguation)

References