Studying and promoting altruism and studying and working to prevent genocide: the guiding role of early survival

Staub was six years old living in Budapest when in 1944, all the Jews in Hungary outside Budapest were transported to Auschwitz. His Holocaust experiences affected his work
. Has spent most of his career studying what leads people to help others, what leads them to remain passive, what leads them to harm others, this included the study of the origins of genocide and other collective violence