Daniel Batson and the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis

  Daniel Batson’s empathy-altruism hypothesis claims that empathy favors so-called prosocial behaviors. It’s a feeling of great value that promotes the best of the human being. It involves spontaneous and genuine acts for which the provider doesn’t expect either gain or reward beyond that of seeing how the world around them improves. In times of fear and uncertainty, this type of behavior becomes more necessary than ever. However, at these moments both kind and ruthless acts tend to appear. Selfishness and altruism are manifestations that define the human being equally. In uncertain times, altruism is the highest moral value and…