A little known research paradigm pioneered by Argentinean psychologists involves positioning a researcher in the driving seat of a van perched on a train track. The dependent variable is whether or not onlookers risk their life and limb to push the van out of the way of an oncoming train.
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Most people will have seen the BBC footage at this stage. I had linked before about the Boston case of a woman being rescued from a gruesome death by onlookers who stopped an incoming train. Today is clearly a more extreme case, with the hero pushing an occupied van out of the way of a train, and jumping out of the way to save himself with milliseconds to spare.
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