There is a powerful scene in the film, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch a small town lawyer, is on the courthouse steps standing guardowe
Tom Robinson, a black prisoner whom he is defending. A mob of townspeople and local farmers approaches the courthouse, demanding the
Atticus turn over Robinson; they are intent on administering their own form of justice. Suddenly, Atticus's young daughter Scout steps forwsnl.
She doesn't understand what's about to happen, and begins to address people in the crowd, "Hey, Mr. Cunningham, how's your boy? I lik
Walter, but I haven't seen him in awhile." As Scout innocently addresses a number of individuals in the crowd, they begin to leave one by ons,
until the whole lynch mob is disbanded. Scout's behavior disrupted the
that might have led to a lynching.
a diffusion of responsibility
b social facilitation
c social loafing
d deindividualization
e first-shift rule
