Jesse and her friends observed that most of their graduate students failed to a person having an epileptic seizure when they thought there were four other witnesses to the emergency. the students' failure to is best explained in terms of: a failure to interpret the incident as an emergency. indifference and apathy. their limited feelings of responsibility. the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

The correct answer is C, their limited feelings of responsibility. Social psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane have introduced the concept of the bystander effect. This is a term describing how the presence of others can discourage someone from intervening in an emergency. It is based on the sociopsychological phenomenon of the diffusion of responsibility and how a person is less likely to take responsibility for an action or inaction when others are present. This leads to the individual transferring the responsibility of acting on the rest of the group.