Achild begins to cry when the mother refuses to buy a doll that the child liked. hearing the child's cries, the mother becomes distressed. the mother buys the doll to reduce the child's distress. according to batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis, the mother's decision to buy the doll is due to motivation. egoistic social misanthropic empathic

The correct answer is known as "Empathic Motivation".

Empathic Motivation is decribed as the other-oriented feelings elicited with the aid of and congruent with the perceived welfare of a person in need. thosedifferent-oriented emotions include emotions of tenderness, sympathy, compassion, soft-heartedness, and the like.

Emphatic difficulty is regularly and wrongly pressured with empathy. To empathize is to respond to some other's perceived emotional country by using experiencing feeling of a comparable type.

The answer - c apex