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Article Source: United Press InternationalU.S. college students are about 40 percent lower in empathy than college students of two or three decades ago, researcher found.
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted the meta-analysis, involving 72 different studies of U.S. college students
from 1979 to 2009.
"We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000," Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research said in a statement. "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."
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