The view that an observer's empathic response to a sufferer's distress produces personal sadness, and that the individual acts to help the sufferer because of the egotistic motivation to relieve his/her own sadness, is an example of:

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The negative-state relief hypothesis suggests that people help others to alleviate their own negative emotions, such as sadness, rather than out of genuine altruism.

The View That an Observer's Empathic Response to a Sufferer's