{"id":5751,"date":"2011-08-11T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2011-08-10T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:41:50","slug":"personality-and-social-psychology-review-baby-boomers-lack-empathy-ability-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/personality-and-social-psychology-review-baby-boomers-lack-empathy-ability-to-care","title":{"rendered":"Personality and Social Psychology Review: Baby Boomers lack empathy, ability to care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby boomers have destroyed every cultural institution in America they have touched: marriage, family, public education, government, financial markets, healthcare, and more, say some critics, whose views may be supported by a Personality and Social Psychology Review<\/em> study.<\/p>\n

“Many argue that one of the most tragic legacies of the baby boomer generation is its narcissistic offspring who now dominate high schools, college campuses, and the world of 20-somethings,” writes Anthony Bradley in World <\/em>magazine.\u00a0“Children of boomers, who tend to have been raised under the delusion that the world revolves around them, have recorded the lowest rates of measured empathy in American history, according to new research.<\/p>\n

“This is not the typical generational angst over youth coming of age; there is something quantifiable and different about the children of baby boomers. Paul Anderson and Sara Konrath, both professors at the University of Michigan, report \u201cthat American college students have been scoring lower and lower on a standardized empathy test over the past three decades.\u201d They add:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, a research paper published in May in Personality and Social Psychology Review shows that since 1980, scores have dropped 34 percent on \u2018perspective taking\u2019 (the ability to imagine others\u2019 points of view) and 48 percent on \u2018empathic concern\u201d (the tendency to feel and respond to others\u2019 emotions). The standardized empathy questionnaire included questions like, \u2018I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me,\u2019 or \u2018I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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