According to pretty much every study conducted over the past five years, levels of empathy among college-age students is plummeting. The University of Michigan conducted a study in 2014 that found that college kids are 40 percent less empathetic than they were just twenty years before. Researchers at Michigan’s Institute for Social Research shared their thoughts on why: “The ease of having ‘friends’ online might make people more likely to just tune out when they don’t feel like responding to others’ problems, a behavior that could carry over offline. Add in the hypercompetitive atmosphere and
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