Cyberbullying happens while bystanders are watching. To understand cyberbystanders’ experience, the present experiment investigates how repetitive aspects of online communication influence bystanders’ perceptions and intentions to halt cyberbullying. We consider the role repetition plays in identifying cyberbullying, and outline two of its mechanisms—power imbalance and intention. Participants (N = 133) were exposed to messages on Twitter that either contained retweets or original offenses from one or several offenders. Although cyberbystanders were generally unwilling to intervene, seeing several offenders increased their likelihood of engaging in the Bystander Intervention Model’s (BIM) stages. Further, re-sharing moderated the effect of number of offenders suggesting cyberbystanders may be less willing to intervene when they read re-shared rather than original content. Implications for cyberbystander interventions are discussed.

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网络欺凌旁观者干预：犯罪者的数量和转推预测帮助网络欺凌受害者的可能性

旁观者注视时会发生网络欺凌。为了了解网络旁观者的经验，本实验调查了在线交流的重复性方面如何影响旁观者的感知和制止网络欺凌的意图。我们考虑重复在识别网络欺凌中所扮演的角色，并概述了其中的两种机制-权力失衡和意图。参与者（N = 133）在Twitter上暴露了包含转发或来自一个或多个犯罪者的原始违法行为的消息。尽管网络旁观者通常不愿干预，但看到一些罪犯增加了参与旁观者干预模型（BIM）阶段的可能性。进一步，重新共享减轻了罪犯数量的影响，这表明网络旁观者在阅读重新共享内容而不是原始内容时可能不太愿意进行干预。讨论了对网络旁观者干预的影响。