em·pa·thy
ˈempəTHē/
noun
- the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
According to some studies empathy is on the decline among young people. Recent "research, led by Sara H. Konrath of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and published online in August in Personality and Social Psychology Review, found that college students’ self-reported empathy has declined since 1980, with an especially steep drop in the past 10 years."
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ReplyDeleteI found an experiment that shows why empathy has a decline and they tested on medical students and other residents. They showed the empathy decline from 1990 to 2010. They asked students questions and observed and came to an conclusion is because there are in competition and are thriving for professionalism. This may threaten their health quality because of a lack of empathy.
Empathy is important because it helps us makes connections with other people, strengthens relationships and helps make great friendships with lots of trust and love.
Having a world with less empathy would potentially mean that there is less love in the world and more hatred among others. People will not know how to communicate with other people and enjoy there lives with the help of friendships.
http://www.livescience.com/9918-today-college-students-lack-empathy.html
ReplyDeleteThis source I found gives theories as to why college students are less empathetic nowadays. One theory was that college students are addicted to social media, which plays a huge role in this. They are distant from the real world and zone out whenever they talk to their online friends. They don't show true emotion over the internet. Another possibility of the lack of empathy, given in this article, is that college students are too concerned about their own issues and don't have time to care about anyone else but themselves.
Empathy is important because it is the main source of bonding with people and sending and receiving true emotions with one another. A world with less empathy could inflict great damage on to everyone because we never get to share anything about ourselves to someone or we lose the ability to even care for others. It would be as if everyone is nonexistent, including yourself.
http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/7724-empathy-college-students-don-t-have-as-much-as-they-used-to
ReplyDeleteAccording to the data analyzed in this article, “many see the current group of college students as one of the most self-centered, narcissistic, competitive, confident and individualistic in recent history” and this “growing emphasis on the self is accompanied by a corresponding devaluation of others”. One of the reasons why empathy is declining among young adults could be the “increase in exposure to media”, which lets the students “be so busy worrying about themselves and their own issues that they don't have time to spend empathizing with others, or at least perceive such time to be limited”.
I think empathy is important because it’s the feeling that allows people to understand each other and to sustain together the struggles of life. In a world with less empathy it would be harder to live, because without this feeling that involves compassion towards the other it would be as if everybody lived for himself or herself, ignoring what surrounds him or her and this selfishness would improve hate and anger.
In this blog called "The Loss of Empathy in Society", they stated that the social network can be one of the causes for the declination of empathy. With all the Tweets, Facebook messaging, and chatting online is not face-face contact. In order to be empathetic, you have to learn to read peoples' faces, especially the eyes. http://www.chcp.edu/blog/loss-empathy-society-today
ReplyDeleteEmpathy is important because it's a feeling that allows people to really understand how another person feels. Empathy creates connections between people. It helps forms friendships and love. We can relate to how other people feel and care for them. Without empathy, our world would go awry. People would be very disgusting and clueless towards each other. They would become selfish which feeds more anger. Empathy is involved with the mind, and our minds keep on getting filled up with social media in this generation. Without looking at the other person's face, we don't know how they're feeling. Even with just texting, we don't know what the person's reaction is or what their emotions are. Also just calling each other doesn't help. We can't read each other's mind and understand one another if we can't communicate face to face and make an actual conversation.
Empathy is probably the most important quality in human beings in my opinion. This is because empathy is the only thing that makes humans human, without it we are monsters. Empathy is the reason we help other people. I am not surprised with the results of these studies because social media really has changed the way people see themselves. Another article written about this, on http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/09/23/facebook-and-narcissism/is-declining-empathy-technologys-fault states " narcissism has been increasing over the past 30 years in American culture, while empathic traits have been declining" I believe this is because of social media because people post things a lot just to show off to all their friends or followers. Everyone posts pictures in the hopes of being the person with the most likes. Its really like a competition to a lot of people. When someone posts a picture and gets tons of comments it obviously makes them feel good about themselves, causing them to become too full of themselves. So many people are worried about competing with each other to be best, So it is not shocking that people care less about others.
ReplyDeleteEmpathy is an important characteristic that any human being can have. Without with any empathy we'd practically be robots. I'm not surprised by the results. I'm quite surprised with how the reading had went down by 50 percent. I like how hopeful the article is when they said 'we are not doomed to become a society of self-obsessed loners. Konrath points out that if life choices can drive empathy down, then making different choices could nurture it. “The fact that empathy is declining means that there’s more fluidity to it than previously thought,” she says. “It means that empathy can change. It can go up.” ' So this gives me some hope. Another article with some criteria https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201006/is-the-me-generation-less-empathetic
ReplyDeleteEmpathy is important in everyone's life and makes humans human and show that we care about one and other. This article was interesting and a little surprising to me. I was surprised by the results about how empathy went down. I didn't think empathy decreased that low. I do believe that reading and empathy have a connection and many people don't read books that much anymore because of technology. Hopefully we can change this. Another article about this is https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/born-love/201005/shocker-empathy-dropped-40-in-college-students-2000
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