Before Agreeing to Help Out at the Local Homeless Shelter

question 4

Multiple Choice

Before agreeing to help out at the local homeless shelter, Sharon weighs the costs (e.g., getting up at dawn) and benefits (e.g., feeling good about herself) of doing so. This strategy would be predicted by

• A) the empathy-altruism hypothesis.
• B) social-exchange theory.
• C) the social responsibility norm.
• D) social comparison theory.

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Pooling Method

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