One Criticism of Batson's Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis Is That

question 82

Multiple Choice

One criticism of Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis is that

• A) both sadness and happiness can cause an increase in helping behavior.
• B) manipulations of empathic concern might actually be clues that the potential helping recipient might share genes with us, thus rendering the helping a selfish act rather than an altruistic act.
• C) similarity and friendship really don't elicit perspective taking and empathic concern.
• D) individuals experiencing empathic concern for another tend to help regardless of whether it's easy or difficult to leave the aversive situation without helping.

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