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Maybe you should try taking some Tylenol to test and see if it could make you feel less empathetic, less kind, less the caring daughter that you are? But, did the study find the effects were reversable-that part would be important!
Whenever I hear there is a S T U D Y , my first thoughts are: Who did the study and what did they want to prove; and, who paid for the study? In this case, it might have been a competitor like Advil-famous for making the patient kinder, ha ha, just kidding. I am very skeptical of clinical drug studies. I enjoy following up on interesting studies after they are published in journals, such as JAMA and others. The rebuttals by scientists and doctors shine a light on the conclusions which were reported in the study. Do a study-get paid-what a way to create a job.
You know, I had some tylenol just yesterday-and I guess I just don't care?
But, I do care that you are treated better!
Most college students are young with little life experience still very self absorbed.
Agree the study needs to be repeated with a larger group and wider age range.
Jessie I think your mother was probably born without empathy from what you have posted so I would let her keep her T3!!!!!!!
The first "test" involved 80 college students. The second one involved 114 college students. Empathy was determined through reading of stories, and through "noise blasts", and through an online game.
Unless I misread the article, things like dramatic footage of floods, earthquakes, explosions, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, etc. weren't involved. To me the "tests" make a big difference because empathy is more readily displayed during catastrophic events (just my humble opinion).
Reference was made to another study on the same issue in 2004. No sample size was given.
Jessie, I wouldn't worry too much just yet. The 80 and 114 participant studies aren't what I would consider a significant control group. First, it's just too small a sample. Second, they're ALL college students. There was no indication what their background was, whether they had lost any family members, suffered any serious injuries, had family in the military, done any caregiving. The only commonality was being a student.
My experience going to college was that the full time students weren't the most empathetic, but they were somewhat self absorbed. Obviously, that opinion wouldn't qualify as significant either.
It's an unsettling conclusion, though, but I think it needs to be supported by larger studies, and interaction with situations in which the possible empathy would be something typical of producing a reaction by people in a more varied group. It would be interesting if 2 groups of medical personnel were used for such a study, or a group of medical people and a group of nonmedical personnel, or a group of parents vs. nonparents.
Thanks for sharing this information though; it's definitely given me something to think about.