Any study that tries to quantify empathy needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but you can take this particular survey yourself — and if you do, you’ll probably find its empathy-measuring questions credible enough to be at least disquieted by these findings:
Today’s college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and ’90s, a University of Michigan study shows.
The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy among almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years.
“We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000,” said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. “College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.”
The fact that the tipping point seems to coincide with the rise of the internet should send everyone rushing off to...
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