What is the common? What separates them? When it comes to schizophrenia and the bystander effect they have very little in common. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that causes a human to have delusions where the bystander effect is when an event happens and how a person reacts to it. Schizophrenia usually has a mental reaction that is usually recognizable to be well…delusional and not by choice. However, while the bystander effect is a choice, the only comparison these two have in common is the way humans react to it. How schizophrenics react to their disorder and how a spectator reacts to the event happening around them. And because they react to a situation, whether delusional in the case of schizophrenia, or the bystander effect is very different when compared or in a real situation as in the bystander effect, but this is also what makes the two different. Schizophrenia causes a person to react differently because they have no choice. Schizophrenics live in their own little world. The bystander effect is how a person reacts in a "realistic" situation while schizophrenics while a bystander have the ability to react to a situation in a more mental way