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Abstract

Clemens Kroneberg suggested in his paper ( Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology , 64:37–65, 2012) that based on the Model of Frame Selection rational choice theory would offer a sound explanation of pro-social behavior which is demonstrated in the case of the rescue of Jews. This criticism argues that this attempt fails both because the explanandum is insufficiently formulated and the data from the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior-Institute (Oliner and Oliner, The altruistic personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe 1988) are highly selective and do not allow far reaching conclusions. Therefore the proposed explanation can be rejected because the data do not fit.