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No Behaviour is ‘really’ altruistic. Based on theory and research in social psychology, critically discuss this contention.

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March 6, 2016

 

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Batson et al. (1981) experimentally tested this hypothesis by having subjects watch another person receive electric shocks and then giving the subject the chance to help by taking the remaining shocks themselves The experiment concluded that empathic emotion does evoke altruistic motivation to see another's need reduced...
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This empathy-altruism hypothesis had significant theoretical implications because it contradicted the more widely accepted theories of egoism, which are built on the assumption that everything we do is ultimately directed toward the end-state goal of benefiting ourselves (Batson et al. 1981). The empathy-altruism hypothesis comments that motivation for helping may be a mixture of altruism and egoism (Batson et al...
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