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Egoistic Motivation for Helping

Egoistic motivation for helping is a self-serving drive where an individual voluntarily helps others with the primary goal of obtaining personal benefits, such as feeling good about oneself, because their ego is involved and they receive benefits from helping (Cialdini et al., 1997).

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