THIS is NEWS?!?!
College Students Have Less Empathy Than Past Generations
College students today show less empathy toward others compared with college students in decades before, a study from the University of Michigan says.
Sara Konrath, a researcher at the university’s Institute for Social Research, looked at 72 studies that gauged empathy among 14,000 college students in the past 30 years. She found that empathy has been declining — especially since 2000.
The research finds that college students today show 40% less empathy vs. students in the 1980s and 1990s. The students are less likely to agree with statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me” and “I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.”
The study did not evaluate why students are less empathetic, but Konrath says one reason may be that people are having fewer face-to-face interactions, communicating instead through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
“Empathy is best activated when you can see another person’s signal for help,” Konrath says.
All you have to do is go out for a drive. You don’t need a reporter to tell you this, bub. Holy cow, kids are NASTY today! “Empathy,” what a word, lol. They “lack” “empathy.”
Maybe if they weren’t so pampered and pandered, that might help? Maybe if they didn’t have everything handed to them on a silver platter? Maybe if they actually interacted with the sick, the weak, the infirm, a little more? So much for all that “self-esteem” crap in school. Kids don’t need “self-esteem.” They need to work their BUTTS off so they know that 1.) Kids are NOT the center of the universe, 2.) They develop a sense of accomplishment in a JOB WELL DONE and not a prideful attitude of the eternal importance of their existence amongst us mortals.
Kids should work hard at anything and everything– digging ditches, sat prep, whatever. But they MUST be forced to work hard. And they must stop being pampered!!!
Our society cannot righteously complain about the monster that society has created. It didn’t just magically happen. These monster have been created. Welcome to the school of hard knocks, you “empathy” “lackers.” It’s called REAL LIFE. As soon as you go out into the real world away from your ivory towers and coddling parents, and try to find jobs amongst your peers and try to make a living, you’ll find out that everyone ELSE is JUST as lacking in empathy as YOU!
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