Are We Losing Our Empathy?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on May 31st, 2010 in Emotional Issues, In The News, Linked Articles.
College students are less empathetic than college students of the past. At least that’s what University of Michigan researchers have concluded.
The meta-analysis combined the results of 72 different studies of American college students that were conducted between 1979 and 2009 and involved 14,000 college students. Today’s students were found to possess about 40 percent less empathy than students of 20 or 30 years ago, with the biggest drop coming after the year 2000.
Who or what is to blame for the apparent loss of empathy? After all, the study participants are the offspring of those more empathetic college kids from the 70’s and 80’s…
May 31st, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Personally I find the group ‘college students’ a mirror of larger society in general. Somewhere, we the people lost our empathy.
Caregivingly Yours, Patrick