The Good Samaritan

"A man in torn clothes sprawls across an urban sidewalk. He moans softly. Pedestrians hurry by with no more than a worried glance. No one stops to help. Someone watching from afar might wonder at such uncaring behavior; surely some conscientious person would stop. Moreover these pedestrians are all young adults wearing clerical garb, seminarians studying for the ministry. Why did they not stop? Researchers who staged this test found that seminary students did not stop because they worried about being late. Their personal obligation to keeping an appointment outweighted their general commitment to helping others" --Michael J Lovaglia, From Summer Camps to Glass ceilings: the power of experiments.