Before Agreeing to Help Out at the Local Homeless Shelter,Sharon

question 84

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)the social-exchange theory.
• C)the social responsibility norm.
• D)the social comparison theory.

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