Today's college kids lack empathy

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Might factors associated with autism increase and thus with empathy-lack

in autism (eg, 1-4) also be inducing a lessening of empathy among kids

in general?

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*/Today's college kids lack empathy/*

*/Compared to 30 years ago, it's all about me now, study finds/*

Fri., May 28, 2010

By Jeanna Bryner

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37399539/ns/health-behavior/

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...

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