Bibb Latané

Bibb Latané

Bibb Latané (born July 19, 1937) is a United States social psychologist. He is probably most famous for his work in bystander intervention in emergencies with John Darley, but has also published many articles on social attraction in animals, social loafing in groups, and the spread of social influence in populations.

Latané received his B.A. from Yale in 1958, and his Ph.D. with Stanley Schachter from Minnesota in 1963. He taught at Columbia University, the Ohio State University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1980s, he was director of UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science (now the Odum Institute). He is currently director of his own Center for Human Sciencecite web| url=http://gazette.unc.edu/archives/04mar24/file.2.html| title="Human Science Project Creates Close Community"| accessdate=2004-03-24] in Chapel Hill, NC.

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* [http://www.humanscience.org/ Center for Human Science]
* [http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/jsp/home.jsp Odum Institute]

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