The roots of goodness
Ervin Staub survived the Holocaust as a child. As a psychologist, he spent a lifetime asking how cruelty takes hold – and whether kindness can, too
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Record
| Original publisher | Psyche |
| Canonical URL | https://psyche.co/portraits/holocaust-survivor-ervin-staub-how-to-stop-evil-taking-root |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T10:07:58.288Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T10:08:02.729Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | None yet |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | No WeSearch summary has been generated for this story yet. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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SOCIAL HISTORYSaveThe rise of the bystander as a complicit historical actor‘The appalling silence of the good people’: how the bystander rose to prominence as a morally complicit actor in historyby Dennis Klein
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Psyche.
