A new University of Michigan study conducted meta-analysis on 72 different surveys of American college students from 1979 to 2009 and concluded that: "College kids today are about 40 per cent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait." Apparently, college students today are much less likely to agree with the statements,"I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective" and "I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me." According to Konrath, the author of the study, "Many people see the current group of college students -- sometimes called 'Generation Me' -- as one of the most self-centered, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history." This so called "Generation Y" or "Generation Me" is something I have contemplated
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