Sibicky, Schroeder, and Dovidio (1995) Compared Participants Who Were Induced

question 31

Multiple Choice

Sibicky, Schroeder, and Dovidio (1995) compared participants who were induced to feel empathy with participants who were not so induced. Those who were induced to feel more empathy gave fewer hints to help other participants when they were told that the hints could harm the other participants later in the experiment. This finding:

• A) supports the claim that genuine empathy can lead to helping that is sensitive to the needs of others and not simply motivated to avoid feeling bad.
• B) supports the idea that empathy leads to helping that is motivated by the desire to avoid feeling bad and, therefore, is actually selfish.
• C) is inconsistent with the idea that there is a biological basis to empathy.
• D) shows that empathy is actually unrelated to peoples' motives for helping.