The View That an Observer's Empathic Response to a Sufferer's

question 97

Multiple Choice

The view that an observer's empathic response to a sufferer's distress produces personal sadness, and that the individual acts to help the sufferer because of the egotistic motivation to relieve his/her own sadness, is an example of:

• A) the empathy-altruism hypothesis
• B) the empathy-specific reward hypothesis
• C) the negative-state relief hypothesis
• D) the empathy-specific punishment hypothesis
• E) the negative-state egoism hypothesis

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