The People Higher on Empathy Quotient are more Altruistic

The empathy quotient facilitates altruistic behavior and social understanding. Here, however, we suggest that the most basic mechanism of empathy the intuitive sharing of other's emotional and motivational statesis limited to those we like. The term altruism refers to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others. The present study views that the people who are higher on empathy quotient are more altruistic in nature .The sample consisted of 40. Two tools of measurement emotional quotient questionnaire [EQ] The altruistic personality and the self-report altruism scale were used to collect data. The Descriptive statistics and t-test were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that the people who are high on empathy quotient are the one's who can contribute the best to this field of altruism.