 Daniel Batson  Robert Cialdini  Altruism: motivational state in which the ultimate goal is increasing a victims’ welfare  Egoism: motivational state.

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 Daniel Batson  Robert Cialdini

 Altruism: motivational state in which the ultimate goal is increasing a victims’ welfare  Egoism: motivational state in which the ultimate goal is increasing one’s own welfare

“Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.” -Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto

 Individual uses the need situation to gain rewards or avoid punishments › Empathy-specific rewards hypotheses › Empathy-specific punishments › Arousal cost-reward model

Piliavin et al. (1975)

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” -Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759

 When a bystander encounters another individual in need, the bystander may feel empathy. › Empathy is vicarious emotional responding with a focus on another person’s welfare  Empathy leads to altruism

Five Studies Testing Two New Egoistic Alternatives to the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis

 People who feel empathy for are motivated by the relief of their own sadness.  Helping is gratifying and people will be motivated to help when in a bad mood because they believe it will make them feel good.

Empathy-Based Helping: Is it Selflessly or Selfishly Motivated?

 Inconsistent support › Expected mood enhancement did not decrease helping for individuals in a high- empathy situation (Batson et al., 1989) › Empathy predicts helping even with the potentially mediating effects of sadness in the model (Dovidio et al., 1990)

 Sadness  Personal distress  Empathy

Other’s Distress Distress Empathy Egoistic Altruistic ??? HELP

 Felt-oneness as an additional egoistic motivation(Cialdini et al., 1997) › If bystander takes victims perspective, or has an attachment to the victim, then the bystander experiences Oneness,  A sense of shared, merged, or interconnected personal identities

 Sadness  Personal distress  Empathy  Felt-Oneness

 Felt Oneness: › Cialdini et al. (1997) › Maner et al. (2002)  Empathy-Altruism › Batson et al. (1997) › Batson et al. (2003)

 Maner et al. (2002)