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Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to

(5/27/2010)

(University of Michigan News Service) 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.…

»Read the entire article at the University of Michigan News Service.

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