| Term | Definition |
| Altruism | involves some cost to altruist and some benifit to recipient (kindly intent) |
| Empathy altruism hypothesis | Batson (1991) |
| Acting on empathetic concern | Altruistic |
| Acting on personal distress | Egoistic |
| Electric shock study p's ofrered chance to swap | Batson et al (1981) |
| Batson | Research for Empathy/Altruism |
| Altruistic Concern | Reason for the desire to increase another's welfare |
| Empathetic Concern | The feeling produced when witnessing someone in need |
| Attached to the victim in some way | A condition for empathy |
| Positive view of human behaviour | An evaluation point of the EAM |