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urban overload hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

the idea that city dwellers face more stimulation than they can process, so they ration attention and offer less help to strangers.

In social psychology, urban overload hypothesis refers to the idea that city dwellers face more stimulation than they can process, so they ration attention and offer less help to strangers. This meaning comes from Milgram (1970) in Science.[1]

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References

Milgram, S. (1970). The Experience of Living in Cities: Adaptations to urban overload create characteristic qualities of city life that can be measured. Science, 167(3924), 1461-1468. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3924.1461

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