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
Ans: c
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