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Social media shown to diminish empathy

By Hayley Devitt | September 6, 2012

Empathy is the ability to identify with another person’s emotions and point of view, but according to an article on Scientific American’s website, college students seem to be really lacking it these days. Citing social networking websites like Facebook...