Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis

By Sara Konrath, Edward H O'Brien, Courtney Hsing. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2011

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Empathy: a motivated account. (2014, background): “Konrath, O’Brien, and Hsing (2011) recently documented decreases in college students’ self-reported empathy scores over the last 40 years.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “Kroll and Davidovitz (2003) also find that subjects prefer more equal income distributions.”
Placing Job Characteristics in Context: Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Changes in Job Characteristics Since 1975 (2018, background): “The continued popularity of this framework and measure provides a large database and a standardized measure with which to examine the temporal changes needed to provide generalizable inferences (Konrath et al., 2011; Twenge, 2011; Twenge & Im, 2007).”
Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 (2012, background): “This is consistent with previous research finding generational increases in agentic traits and either no change or declines in communal traits (Konrath et al., 2011; Twenge, 1997).”