Newspapers called the 38 witneses selfish and uncaring, but social psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane had a different theory. They believed that a large a number of witnesses actually decreased the chances that witnesses a murder, he or she will feel fully responsible. Now imagine there are many witnesses, as in the Genovese case. Darley and Latana pointed out that each person felt only a small amount of responsibility, so each did nothing. The reason they didn't help was not that they were uncaring or selfish people. There were just too many of them.