Every year anxious freshmen shuffle into lecture halls for introto psychology courses, they'll learn names like Freud, Jung,Skinner, James and Piaget. Without a doubt, they'll learn the nameKitty Genovese along with those. Unlike the others on that list,Kitty never planned on being incorporated in the textbooks andPowerPoint presentations (had any of them known what PowerPointwas). She was murdered in New York City in 1964 by a violent serialoffender. Her story is robbed of its complexity and reduced to aparable, used to illustrate the perils of urban apathy. The conceptis largely responsible for pioneering the study of the bystandereffect. There were real-word, long lasting, far-reachingconsequences, as well. The idea that 38 of Kitty's neighborswatched from their windows as she was attacked without bothering tophone for help haunted policy makers and scholars of humanbehavior, as well as people who read about in it newspapers allacross the country for decades. But is it just a story? This weekwe take a look at the legend of urban apathy and get to know thedynamic, brave woman behind the notes in your psych 101 notebook.Join us as we explore the urban legend of the murder of KittyGenovese.

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