Ervin Staub Publishes "The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil"

Former ISI fellow and Professor Emeritus of Psychology Ervin Staub recently published his new book, The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil. In this book, Ervin Staub draws on his extensive experiences in scholarship and intervention to illuminate the socializing experiences, education, and trainings that lead children and adults to become helpers/active bystanders and rescuers, acting to prevent violence and create peaceful and harmonious societies. 

The book collects Staub's most important and influential articles and essays in the field together with newly written chapters, with wide-ranging examples of helping behaviors as well as discussions of why we should help and not harm others. He addresses many examples of such behaviors, from helping people in everyday physical or psychological distress, to active bystandership in response to harmful actions by youth toward their peers (bullying), to endangering one's life to save someone in immediate danger, or rescuing intended victims of genocide.

More information about Staub's book can be found here.