As we saw in the previous entry , there are certain traits that prevail in an altruistic personality. But to implement them It takes more than just owning them.
While it is true that there an external catalyst (in this case, the Nazi persecution) is rather an aspect domestic, internal motivation, leading these people to act and is connected to how they interpret reality. In how they interpret the claims. Samuel and Pearl Oliner are called internal catalysts and have found 3 different :
1 - Grounds empathically oriented.
2 - Grounds Orent to central rule
3 - Motivation low Oriented First-umbrella own ( The principle of Justice, for some and for others the Principle of Care neighbor)
I will explain with the same examples that the authors surveyed in interviews:
Case "Stanislaus": Type 1: The central motivation was empathetic and consistent. Compassion.
Stanislaus was born in 1920 in a Polish Catholic family with limited resources. His mother had come from the countryside, where she worked as a maid and partly as a midwife. His father had had an incomplete education and when academémica Stanislaus was 8, a result of an accident, became disabled, living on a state pension since then.
Stanislaus had a brother 4 years older than him. Stanislaus graduated from the University in 1939 worse could not continue their studies until after the war where he completed a Master in the Consular Department of Diplomacy at the Academy of Political Science. During the war he and his family lived near the Warsaw Ghetto. His charitable activivades continued for several years.
As he himself recounts in the interview was coming to pick help a gallery of colorful people. Included several dozen people. Some got help in the form of a bowl of soup, other temporary shelter during the raids. Some are even as they were several years, he held good hiding at home or at home known.
Interviewers noted the Stanislaus way of telling the story, he knew personal details about the life of every one of those people and expressed with affection, great compassion. Really cared about their needs. Stanislaus particularly cared for his mother. Was a man who had many friends and friendship transcended race and creed. The street where he lived had been inhabited by 80% for Jews. Their self-esteem was mean and had a strong ego. His brother, encambio weakest character could not stand the pressure and went to the house was very afraid of being atratapado tampooc by the Nazis and was able to continue seeing the suffering of these people seeking refuge. Stanislaus, chose to stay.
motivated him three core values: education he received, the need to deal with others and universal tolerance.
In Virtue of the education they received, had a special understanding of the world (inclusive, accepting differences) in that respect and consideration for the other were core values. His interpretation of the reality of that moment, then took him to act accordingly, taking care of empathic to the needs of people in danger.
Case "Ilse" Type 2: a rule-oriented Grounds Central
Conversely an empathic reaction, a reaction oriented central rule is not directly connected with the victim. It is rather a feeling of obligation to a reference group which the actor is identified and whose implicit and explicit rules feels compelled to comply., for example, belonged to a church. For this group (52% of the rescuers). In general the reaction was triggered when a director of the community asked to help the persecuted.
Ilse was the wife of a German Lutheran minister, and responded to twice called her husband and a prestigious broker. Intermediaries often came from resistance groups. She was in the house to a Jewish couple for four days. It was highly risky because when German was opposition to the authorities in their own country.
help other people was an important religious rule Ilse. It also recalls that his mother taught him obedience, honor others, including peers. From his father he learned to believe in God, to have an interest in religious life and be modest.
Then, the internal motivation to act was Ilse, was to comply with group norms and rule hung up for others ..
Similarly, responding to a standard central the August 29, 1943 just before the Nazis were to make a raid to deport the Danish Jewish population, the Christian Danish people Lutherans organized the escape of more than 7,200 fellow Jews to Sweden in fishing boats during the night, mocking the German guard. The full story is compiled by Leo Goldberger, PhD in Psychology in "The rescue of Danish Jews, moral courage under stress", a book of which he is editor. The same was saved in one of those boats.
In the next installment v Eremos two examples of Type 3.
