Study: Today’s college students lacking empathy
College students today are less likely to “get” the emotions of others than their counterparts 20 and 30 years ago, a new review study suggests.
Specifically, today’s students scored 40 percent lower on a measure of empathy than their elders did.
The findings are based on a review of 72 studies of 14,000 American college students overall conducted between 1979 and 2009.
“We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000,” said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research.
The study was presented this week at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston.
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Well, as usual, these studies are often one-sided.
It is not only college students lacking empathy for their fellow human beings, the whole WORLD is generally lacking in empathy. I was reading just this week about a man who was dying in the street and people just walked past him and continued shopping. One man eventually stopped to help him and called for an ambulance, but it was already too late.
People are generally very selfish and only consider themselves these days and cannot relate to the suffering of others. This is NOT only confined to colege students, unfortunately.