title: Bystander
text: # Bystander
  
  Bystander may refer to:
  
  ## In media
  
  * Bystander (novel), a 1930 novel by Maxim Gorki
  * Bystander (magazine), was a British weekly tabloid magazine
  * Guilty Bystander, a 1950 independent film production
  * Innocent Bystanders (film), a 1972 film directed by Peter Collinson
  * Iowa Bystander, an Iowa newspaper targeted toward an African-American audience
  
  ## In music
  
  * The Bystanders, a Welsh close harmony pop group, formed in 1962
  * Bystander (album), a 2011 six track extended play by Canadian alternative rock band Jets Overhead
  * Innocent Bystanders, were a Perth-based band formed in 1983
  
  ## Other meanings
  
  * Bystander effect, a social psychological phenomenon wherein individuals do not offer help in an emergency when other people are present
  * Bystander effect (radiobiology), the phenomenon in which unirradiated cells exhibit irradiated effects as a result of signals received from nearby irradiated cells
  * Bystander Nunatak, a geographical feature in Antarctica
  * Perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, a typology in genocide studies
  