Rescue behavior often begins from helping someone personally known

Evidence

Many rescuers started out by helping a Jew with whom they had a past relationship. Some were asked by a Jewish friend or acquaintance to help. The personal relationship would have made it more likely that altruistic-moral motives as well as relationship-based motives would become active. Having helped someone they knew, many continued to help. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 179

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Calling someone brother makes them a brother through care and rescue; A rescuer’s personal identification with victims can suspend in-group loyalty to countrymen — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 656

Broader Connections

• Calling someone brother makes them a brother through care and rescue #exemplifies (0.78)
• A rescuer’s personal identification with victims can suspend in-group loyalty to countrymen #expands (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 656