Gender, the equality of the sexes, and societal inequalities more generally have been intensely debated and studied by social scientists in the last several decades. In the wake of the debates, new fields of study and new ways of thinking about old issues have emerged. This is as true of psychology as of other social sciences. When psychologists take contemporary scholarship on gender, ethnic g...

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* Corresponding author a Cultural and Social Neuroscience Research Group, Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK b Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK c Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA d Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK e Division ...

The attack, and subsequent controversy, also kick-started a new wave of enquiry within social psychology; concerned with the processes which lead people to help others when they have nothing personally to gain from this act (or, to use the correct terminology, into Altruistic Behaviour). The focus of much of this research was with bystander behaviour, attempting to identify the factors (or dete...