Aboss is talking with a newly-appointed executive in his office. while pleading with the boss to postpone an upcoming deadline, the executive begins to cry. reacting to the executive's distress, the boss becomes upset as well. the boss decides to the executive in order to relieve his own distress. according to batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, the boss's decision to the executive is due to motivation.

A boss is talking with a newly-appointed executive in his office. While pleading with the boss to postpone an upcoming deadline, the executive begins to cry. Reacting to the executive's distress, the boss becomes upset as well. The boss decides to help the executive in order to relieve his own distress. According to Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, the boss's decision to help the executive is due to egoistic motivation.
Egoistic motivation suggests that every one behaviors are actuated by self-interest. In different words, it suggests that each action or behavior or call of each person is actuated by self interest. It conjointly suggests that each action should be actuated by self interest. The philosophical system of narcissistic motivation is solely a construct of scientific discipline. Even as it's a construct of physics that bodies tend to maneuver toward each other in proportion to their lots and at velocities reciprocally proportionate to their distances from each other, it's a construct that every one motivations are, ultimately, selfish.

Because psychological self-concern states that each act of each person is actuated by self-interest, it's universal.