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SUMMARY:Psychological Predictors of Threat Recognition and Bystander Inter
 vention: A Warning Behavior Simulation
DESCRIPTION:Milena Kogan, Ancuta Margondai, Mustapha Mouloua, and Ashley W
 inch (University of Central Florida)\n\nCampus safety depends on bystander
 s recognizing and reporting concerning behaviors before violence occurs. Y
 et the individual traits that determine whether someone notices a warning 
 sign and acts remain poorly understood. This study used an agent-based sim
 ulation with 500 synthetic bystanders to examine how empathy, mental healt
 h stigma, social connectedness, and emotion regulation predict threat reco
 gnition and intervention willingness across six warning behavior scenarios
  drawn from the threat assessment literature.\n\nResults revealed that all
  four bystander characteristics significantly influenced both perceived th
 reat and willingness to intervene. Stigma emerged as the strongest barrier
  to intervention, while social connectedness and empathy were the stronges
 t positive predictors among the psychosocial factors examined. Perceived t
 hreat explained additional variance in intervention willingness beyond soc
 ial-emotional variables, suggesting that helping people accurately recogni
 ze warning signs may be as important as targeting individual traits. Warni
 ng behavior type also mattered, with leakage of intent eliciting the highe
 st threat perception and social withdrawal eliciting the lowest.\n\nThese 
 findings suggest that campus reporting systems should reduce stigma-relate
 d barriers, improve threat awareness training, and address ambiguous warni
 ng behaviors where bystander characteristics most strongly influence outco
 mes. A second phase will empirically validate these predictions with under
 graduate participants.\n\n
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