What is altruism and do you think it is a real phenomenon?
What will be an ideal response?
Empathy involves both identification and understanding, and is believed to be the driving force for acts of altruism, the act of helping unselfishly. Altruistic people want to alleviate the suffering of persons they are helping. Though some believe that all behavior is motivated by self-interest, Daniel Batson demonstrated through over 30 experiments that pitted empathy-altruism acts of helping against egoistic (self-interest) motivated helping, that empathy motivated altruism is a real phenomenon.
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a. true b. false
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a. are highly predictive of children's overall adjustment b. show little relation to children's overall adjustment c. are moderately related to children's overall adjustment d. are completely useless in predicting children's overall adjustment
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