The altruistic personality
Subtitle: rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe
By: Samuel P. Oliner, Pearl M. Oliner ; with foreword by Harold M. Schulweis.
Contributors: Oliner, Pearl M.
Publisher: Free Press; Collier Macmillan
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust  -- Psychology.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.; Altruism.; Motivation (Psychology)
Notes: Foreword by Rabbi Harold Schulweis; preface; acknowledgments; 1- why risk one✹s life? 2- the historical context of rescue by Lawrence baron; 3- the acts of heroism; 4  the social context of rescue: trust and deception; 5  saving others: was it opportunity or character? 6  the key to altruism: values of caring; 7  the roots of human attachments; 8- concern into action; 9  the enduring significance of altruistic acts; 10  moral heroism and extensivity; appendices  methodology; tables; questionnaire; notes; selected bibliography; index

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 382-414.