Explain how empathy affects helping. What will be an ideal ...

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Explain how empathy affects helping.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In Jones and Davis's (1965) correspondent inference theory, observers trying to infer whether a particular behavior corresponds to an enduring personal characteristic of the actor would ask all of the following questions except which question?
 
  a. Did the behavior violate any social norms?
  b. What were the consequences of the behavior?
  c. What is the actor's perception of the behavior?
  d. Did the actor freely choose to perform the behavior?

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Answer to Question 1

The empathy-altruism hypothesis proposes that people are more likely to help someone
altruistically if they take his or her perspective. Doing so creates an emotional response
or concern for this other person, which in turn creates a motive to help that is satisfied
when his or her distress is reduced. This hypothesis suggests, then, that helping is
sometimes altruistic, not egoistic. Some would argue, however, that there is no such
thing as pure altruism, and that all helping behavior includes an egoistic component.

Answer to Question 2

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