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Let me also mention two things that the empathy‐altruism hypothesis does not claim. First, it doesn’t claim that a person feeling empathic concern must experience only – or even primarily – altruistic motivation. Such a person can also experience motives, including motives to help, that are produced by thoughts and feelings other than empathic concern. Second, the hypothesis doesn’t claim that empathic concern is the only source of altruistic motivation. There may be other sources, such as certain personality characteristics or personal values. To date, however, no other source has been carefully tested.