In Their Research on Motives for Altruism,Batson and His Colleagues

question 19

Multiple Choice

In their research on motives for altruism,Batson and his colleagues (1986) found that

• A) people were less likely to feel empathy toward a single person than toward a group of people.
• B) most people volunteered to alleviate another person's pain when they felt high levels of personal distress.
• C) people only expressed empathy in response to people who were physically attractive.
• D) people who felt more empathy were more likely to volunteer to alleviate another person's pain.

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