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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ervin Staub is a professor of psychology, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding director of the doctoral program on the psychology of peace and violence. He is most known for his works on helping behavior and altruism, and on the psychology of mass violence and genocide. He was born in Hungary and received his Ph.D. from Stanford. He later taught at Harvard University. He worked in many settings, both conducting research and applying his research and theory. He worked in schools to raise caring and non-violent children, and to promote active bystandership by students in response to bullying, in the Netherlands to improve Dutch-Muslim relations, in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo to promote healing and reconciliation. He has served as an expert witness, for example, at the Abu Ghraib trials, lectured widely on topics related to his work in academic, public, and government settings in the U.S. and other countries, and is the recipient of numerous honors.

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Ervin Staub's Published Works

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The roots of evil : the origins of genocide and other group violence (1990) (1082)
On the Varieties of National Attachment: Blind Versus Constructive Patriotism (1999) (621)
Positive social behavior and morality (1978) (325)
Healing, Reconciliation, Forgiving and the Prevention of Violence after Genocide or Mass Killing: An Intervention and Its Experimental Evaluation in Rwanda (2005) (314)
Reconciliation after Genocide, Mass Killing, or Intractable Conflict: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Psychological Recovery, and Steps toward a General Theory (2006) (311)
Altruism born of suffering: the roots of caring and helping after victimization and other trauma. (2008) (297)
Self-control and predictability: their effects on reactions to aversive stimulation. (1971) (231)
The psychology of good and evil : why children, adults, and groups help and harm others (2003) (220)
Helping a Distressed Person: Social, Personality, and Stimulus Determinants (1974) (182)
Genocide and Mass Killing: Origins, Prevention, Healing and Reconciliation (2000) (169)
Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Socialization and Development (1978) (164)
The Roots of Evil: Social Conditions, Culture, Personality, and Basic Human Needs (1999) (158)
Cultural-societal roots of violence. The examples of genocidal violence and of contemporary youth violence in the United States. (1996) (153)
Moral Exclusion, Personal Goal Theory, and Extreme Destructiveness (1990) (150)
The Use of Role Playing and Induction in Children's Learning of Helping and Sharing Behavior. (1971) (137)
Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism (2010) (130)
The psychology of bystanders, perpetrators, and heroic helpers☆ (1993) (129)
Manifestations of blind and constructive patriotism: Personality correlates and individual–group relations. (1997) (125)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Blind versus Constructive Patriotism: Moving from Embeddedness in the Group to Critical Loyalty and Action (2003) (122)
Patriotism in the lives of individuals and nations (1997) (121)
Need for approval, children's sharing behavior, and reciprocity in sharing. (1970) (120)
Development and Maintenance of Prosocial Behavior (1984) (117)
Inclusive altruism born of suffering: the relationship between adversity and prosocial attitudes and behavior toward disadvantaged outgroups. (2011) (116)
A child in distress: The influence of age and number of witnesses on children's attempts to help. (1970) (108)
Effects of expectancy on working and waiting for larger rewards. (1965) (106)
The Origins and Prevention of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Other Collective Violence (1999) (103)
Notes on Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Caring and Peace, and the Fulfillment of Basic Human Needs (2003) (101)
Building a peaceful society: origins, prevention, and reconciliation after genocide and other group violence. (2013) (92)
Increasing pain tolerance by information about aversive stimuli. (1972) (91)
Genocide, mass killing and intractable conflict: Roots, evolution, prevention and reconciliation. (2003) (91)
The roots of goodness: the fulfillment of basic human needs and the development of caring, helping and non-aggression, inclusive caring, moral courage, active bystandership, and altruism born of suffering. (2005) (89)
Development and maintenance of prosocial behavior : international perspectives on positive morality (1984) (88)
A Child in Distress: The Influence of Nurturance and Modeling on Children's Attempts to Help. (1971) (85)
Helping a person in distress: The influence of implicit and explicit "rules" of conduct on children and adults. (1971) (84)
Instigation to Goodness: The Role of Social Norms and Interpersonal Influence (1972) (79)
The Origins and Evolution of Hate, With Notes on Prevention. (2005) (75)
Altruism and aggression: A conception of the determinants and development of altruism and aggression: motives, the self, and the environment (1986) (69)
Breaking the cycle of genocidal violence: Healing and reconciliation. (1998) (62)
Healing the roots of genocide in Rwanda (2003) (60)
Stimulus characteristics of a sufferer and difficulty of escape as determinants of helping. (1974) (59)
Constructive Rather Than Harmful Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Ways to Promote Them After Genocide and Mass Killing (2005) (56)
Justice, Healing, and Reconciliation: How the People's Courts in Rwanda Can Promote Them (2004) (52)
chapter 1 – Positive Social Behavior, Morality, and Development1 (1979) (51)
Socialization and development (1979) (47)
A child in distress: The effect of focusing responsibility on children on their attempts to help. (1970) (41)
Preventing Genocide: Activating Bystanders, Helping Victims, and the Creation of Caring (1996) (41)
Deconstructing Hate Speech in the DRC: A Psychological Media Sensitization Campaign (2006) (38)
Preventing Violence and Terrorism and Promoting Positive Relations Between Dutch and Muslim Communities in Amsterdam (2007) (37)
Social and personal influences (1978) (37)
The Evolution of Caring and Nonaggressive Persons and Societies (1988) (36)
Personality : basic aspects and current research (1980) (36)
Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict: a commentary. (2009) (35)
Property rights, deservingness, reciprocity, friendship: The transactional character of children's sharing behavior. (1981) (34)
Advancing Healing and Reconciliation. (2006) (31)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Individual and Group Identities in Genocide and Mass Killing (2003) (30)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: CREATING CARING, MORALLY INCLUSIVE, PEACEFUL SOCIETIES (2003) (28)
The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil: Inclusive Caring, Moral Courage, Altruism Born of Suffering, Active Bystandership, and Heroism (2015) (27)
The Evolution of Bystanders, German Psychoanalysts, and Lessons for Today' (1989) (27)
Altruistic and Moral Motivations for Helping and Their Translation Into Action (1991) (26)
The psychology of perpetrators and bystanders. (1985) (26)
The Psychology of Good and Evil (2003) (26)
Effects of persuasion and modeling on delay of gratification. (1972) (25)
Genocide and mass killing: Their roots and prevention. (2001) (21)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The Origins of Caring, Helping, and Nonaggression: Parental Socialization, the Family System, and Cultural Influence (2003) (20)
A World without Genocide: Prevention, Reconciliation, and the Creation of Peaceful Societies (2013) (20)
Moral judgment-situation interaction as a basis for predicting prosocial behavior1 (1981) (19)
Obeying, Joining, Following, Resisting, and Other Processes in the Milgram Studies, and in the Holocaust and Other Genocides: Situations, Personality, and Bystanders (2014) (19)
Healing and Reconciliation (1998) (16)
Understanding and responding to group violence: Genocide, mass killing, and terrorism. (2004) (15)
Preventing Genocide: Activating Bystanders, Helping Victims Heal, Helping Groups Overcome Hostility (1999) (14)
Notes on Terrorism: Origins and Prevention (2002) (14)
Preventing violence and generating humane values: Healing and reconciliation in Rwanda (2003) (13)
The Challenging Road to Reconciliation in Rwanda: Societal Processes, Interventions and Their Evaluation (2014) (13)
Ethnopolitical and other group violence: Origins and prevention. (2001) (13)
Psychological recovery, reconciliation and the prevention of new violence: An approach and its uses in Rwanda (2008) (12)
Reducing boys' aggression : Learning to fulfill basic needs constructively (2000) (12)
Social and Moral Values: Individual and Societal Perspectives (2016) (12)
THE ROOTS AND PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND RELATED MASS VIOLENCE (2012) (11)
Responsibility, Helping, Aggression, and Evil (1996) (11)
Predicting Prosocial Behavior: A Model for Specifying the Nature of Personality-Situation Interaction (1978) (10)
Understanding the Roots and Impact of Violence and Psychological Recovery as Avenues to Reconciliation after Mass Violence and Intractable Conflict (2009) (10)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Basic Human Needs and Their Role in Altruism and Aggression (2003) (10)
The Roots of Evil (1992) (10)
Psychology and morality in genocide and violent conflict: Perpetrators, passive bystanders, and rescuers. (2012) (10)
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Helping Victims of Genocidal Violence Heal (1996) (10)
Book reviewThe growth of interpersonal understanding: Developmental and clinical analyses: By Robert Selman. New York: Academic Press, 1980. xvii + 343 pp., $25.00 (1981) (10)
Preventing violence and promoting active bystandership and peace: My life in research and applications. (2018) (9)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Social and Prosocial Behavior: Personal and Situational Influences and Their Interactions (2003) (9)
Promoting Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda, and Generating Active Bystandership by Police to Stop Unnecessary Harm by Fellow Officers (2019) (8)
Notes toward an Interactionist-Motivational Theory of the Determinants and Development of (Pro)Social Behavior (1984) (8)
Emergency Helping, Genocidal Violence, and the Evolution of Responsibility and Altruism in Children (2002) (7)
Witnesses/Bystanders: The Tragic Fruits of Passivity, the Power of Bystanders, and Promoting Active Bystandership in Children, Adults, and Groups (2019) (7)
Promoting Reconciliation Aer Genocide and Mass Killing in Rwanda—and Other Postconict Settings: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Healing, Shared History, and General Principles (2007) (7)
The Origins of Genocide and Mass Killing, Prevention, Reconciliation, and their Application to Rwanda (2009) (7)
Interventions in Real-World Settings: Using Media to Overcome Prejudice and Promote Intergroup Reconciliation in Central Africa (2017) (7)
Genocide, Mass Killing, and Violent Conflict: Prevention and Reconciliation (2012) (7)
chapter 1 – Positive Behavior, Morality, and Human Nature (1978) (6)
INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL (GROUP) VALUES IN A MOTIVATIONAL PERSPECTIVE AND THEIR ROLE IN BENEVOLENCE AND HARMDOING (2016) (6)
Understanding and Preventing Police Violence (2003) (6)
Reducing Boys' Aggression (2000) (5)
Reconciliation Between Groups, the Prevention of Violence, and Lasting Peace (2012) (4)
Moral Judgment, Empathy, and Other Basic Processes in Altruism. (1987) (4)
VI. The Evolution of Evil (1998) (4)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSOCIAL VALUES (2016) (4)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Preface (2003) (3)
THE SYSTEM OF PERSONAL VALUES AND BEHAVIOR (2016) (3)
Sequencing Trauma Recovery and Reconciliation Interventions in Post-Conflict Settings (2016) (3)
INFORMATION AND EVALUATION PROCESSES IN DECISION MAKING (2016) (3)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Transforming the Bystanders: Altruism, Caring, and Social Responsibility (2003) (3)
PERSONAL VALUES, MORAL PRINCIPLES, AND THREE-PATH MODEL OF PROSOCIAL MOTIVATION (2016) (2)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Conclusion: Creating Caring Societies (2003) (2)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Cultural–Societal Roots of Violence: Youth Violence (2003) (2)
Uncertainty, and the Roots and Prevention of Genocide and Terrorism (2011) (2)
Self--Sacrifice for the Sake of Others. (1972) (2)
Appendix: What Are Your Values and Goals? (2003) (2)
chapter 2 – Personality, the Situation, and the Determination of Prosocial Behavior (1978) (2)
chapter 8 – Summary and Conclusions: The Development of Positive Social Behavior and Morality (1979) (2)
Determinants of Children's Attempts to Help Another Child in Distress. (1969) (2)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers (2003) (1)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Contents (2003) (1)
Other Elements of Reconciliation: Collective Memory, Shared History, and Justice (2010) (1)
The Many Roots of Collective Violence. (1997) (1)
The origins of intractable conflict and mass violence, the prevention of violence, the impact of violence, psychological healing and recovery and reconciliation after mass violence: Training manual (2006) (1)
Genocide and Mass Killing: Origins and Prevention (2011) (1)
chapter 5 – Prosocial Behavior in Response to Varied Needs (1978) (1)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Good and Evil: Themes and Overview (2003) (1)
Evil: Understanding bad situations and systems, but also personality and group dynamics. (2007) (1)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The Ideal University in the Real World (2003) (1)
VALUES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COGNITIVE-EXPERIENTIAL SELF-THEORY (2016) (1)
Toward a Science of Morality: Evidence of Progress. (1976) (1)
Childrens' Sharing Behavior: Success and Failure, the "Norm of Deserving" and ReCiprocity in Sharing (2011) (1)
chapter 4 – Socialization: Basic Styles and Issues (1979) (1)
Promoting Understanding, Healing, and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2010) (1)
The Evolution and Characteristics of Morally Committed Persons. (1994) (0)
Beyond “Us” and “Them” (2010) (0)
Preventing violence and promoting active bystandership and peace (2020) (0)
chapter 3 – Determinants of People Helping Other People in Physical Distress (1978) (0)
The Breaking of Social Bonds and Shame as Sources of Violence. (1995) (0)
Recommendations and Conclusions (2010) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Creating Caring Schools: Design and Content of a Program to Develop Caring, Helping, Positive Self-Esteem, and Nonviolence (2003) (0)
Torture: Psychological and Cultural Origins (2019) (0)
chapter 7 – The Connection between Self and Others: Similarity, Attraction, and Common Group Membership (1978) (0)
Special Thematic Section on " 20 Years after Genocide : Psychology ' s Role in Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Rwanda " The Challenging Road to Reconciliation in Rwanda : Societal Processes , Interventions and Their Evaluation (2014) (0)
My last lecture (2017) (0)
The Sources of Conflict between Groups and Primary Examples (2010) (0)
Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention (2010) (0)
A Taxonomy to Advance Research and Theory. (1984) (0)
The Potential and Power of Active Bystanders: Leaders, Nations, and the International System (2010) (0)
chapter 9 – Cooperation and Intimate Relationships: Further Explorations in Human Transactions (1978) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Natural Socialization: The Role of Experience or Learning by Doing (2003) (0)
chapter 4 – Observing and Causing Harm to Others: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Consequences (1978) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Kosovo: The Need for Flexible Bystander Response (2003) (0)
Developing Positive Orientation to the “Other” (2010) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The Power to Help Others: Report on a Psychology Today Survey on Values, Helping, and Well-Being (2003) (0)
Good and Evil and Psychological Science (2001) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Review of Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich (2003) (0)
The Origins of Hostility and Aggression (2003) (0)
chapter 6 – Orientation to the Self and Others: The Effects of Positive and Negative Experiences, Thoughts, and Feelings (1978) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Changing Cultures and Society (2003) (0)
Learning by Doing in Individuals and Groups (2010) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: A Vision of Holocaust Education in Holocaust Centers and Schools (2003) (0)
chapter 2 – Major Approaches to Development (1979) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Bystanders as Evil: The Example of Rwanda (2003) (0)
The Roots and Prevention of Genocide and Other Collective Violence: A Life’s Work Shaped by a Child’s Experience (2017) (0)
Understanding Origins, But Also Prevention and Reconciliation (2012) (0)
Cultural/Societal Characteristics That Make Hostility and Violence More Likely (2010) (0)
Practical Wisdom: Educating for Active Bystandership to Prevent Violence and Build Peace (2015) (0)
Internal and External Bystanders (2010) (0)
chapter 10 – Summary and Conclusions: The Determinants of Positive Behavior (1978) (0)
Psychological and Societal/Group Processes That Arise from Instigating Conditions (2010) (0)
A Life's Work of Major Significance. (1984) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: When Instigation Does Not Result in Mass Murder (2003) (0)
Constructive Responses to Difficult Life Conditions and Conflict, Preventive Diplomacy, and Dialogue (2010) (0)
Healing/Psychological Recovery and Reconciliation (2010) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Bystanders and Bullying (2003) (0)
Reasons for passivity, the roots of active bystandership, and trainings to develop it. (2023) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: A Note on the Cultural–Societal Roots of Violence (2003) (0)
Changing Hearts and Minds (2010) (0)
Forgiveness, Healing, and Reconciliation (2010) (0)
The Roots of Helping, Heroic Rescue and Resistance to and the Prevention of Mass Violence (2015) (0)
chapter 8 – Exchange and Reciprocity in Positive and Negative Behavior (1978) (0)
怀 e Roots of Helping, Heroic Rescue and Resistance to and the Prevention of Mass Violence: Active Bystandership in Extreme Times and in Building Peaceful Societies (2014) (0)
chapter 5 – Socialization: Practices That Promote Prosocial Development (1979) (0)
chapter 3 – Development with Age: Prosocial Behavior, Social Cognition, and Related Characteristics (1979) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Commentary: Human Destructiveness and the Refugee Experience (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Is Evil a Useful Concept for Psychologists and Others? (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Studying and Promoting Altruism and Studying and Working to Prevent Genocide: The Guiding Role of Early Survival (2003) (0)
5Memories Explored: Dutch Gentile Eyewitness Narratives on the Deportation of the Jews (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Steps Along a Continuum of Destruction: Perpetrators and Bystanders (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Mass Murder: U.S. Involvement as Perpetrator, Passive Bystander, Helper (2003) (0)
Raising Inclusively Caring, Morally Courageous Children and Altruism Born of Suffering (2010) (0)
The Effects of Violence on Groups and Their Members (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Father–Daughter Incest (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Out of Hiding (2003) (0)
The Origins and Inhibiting Influences in Genocide, Mass Killing and Other Collective Violence (2012) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The Origins of Genocide: Rwanda (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Spontaneous (or Impulsive) Helping (2003) (0)
The Heroism of Survivors: Survivors Saving Themselves, Its Impact on Their Lives, and Altruism Born of Suffering (2014) (0)
Further Avenues to Prevention (2003) (0)
Hotel Rwanda: Goodness in the Midst of Evil. (2005) (0)
Property rights, deservingness, reciprocity, friendship: The transactional character of children's sharing behavior. (1981) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Preventing Group Violence (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Helping a Distressed Person: Social, Personality, and Stimulus Determinants (2003) (0)
Scholars and violence-generating ideas. (1997) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: What Can We Learn from This Tragedy? A Reaction Days after September 11, 2001 (2003) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Self-Esteem and Aggression (2003) (0)
Perpetration and the Perpetrators (2010) (0)
A Brief, Intense Look at the Caring Chad. (1993) (0)
Mass Killings and Genocide, Psychology of (2001) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: Persian Gulf Conflict Was Reflection of Stormy Undercurrents in U.S. Psyche (2003) (0)
chapter 6 – Natural Socialization: Participation in Positive Behavior and Experiential Learning (1979) (0)
The Psychology of Good and Evil: The SS and the Psychology of Perpetrators: The Interweaving and Merging of Role and Person (2003) (0)
chapter 7 – Peer Socialization: The Influence of Peers on Positive and Negative Behavior and Personality (1979) (0)
Understanding the Woundedness/Psychological Transformation of All Parties in Mass Violence (2010) (0)
Introduction and Late Prevention (2010) (0)

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