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College Students More Sociopathic and Narcissistic?

A lack of empathy is the sine qua non of the sociopath: ANN ARBOR, Mich.---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." I've recommended The Average American Male and The Lie for an understanding of today's college-age kids...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on May 30, 2010 (boomark / email).