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SAVANNAHHOOPER23 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Inclusive fitness refers to the survival of one's genes in one's offspring and in any relative one helps.

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Question 2

One criticism of Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis is that

A) both sadness and happiness can cause an increase in helping behavior.
B) manipulations of empathic concern might actually be clues that the potential helping recipient might share genes with us, thus rendering the helping a selfish act rather than an altruistic act.
C) similarity and friendship really don't elicit perspective taking and empathic concern.
D) individuals experiencing empathic concern for another tend to help regardless of whether it's easy or difficult to leave the aversive situation without helping.