Sara Konrath

Nov 14, 2024 | statnews.com | Emily Weinstein |Sara Konrath

You’re probably not worried about the role that Strava is playing in the teen mental health crisis. But you should be. Strava seems extremely benign — especially compared to an app like Instagram or TikTok. It simply “lets you track your running and riding with GPS, join Challenges, share photos from your activities, and follow friends,” in the company’s own words. Yet we recently heard a high school track coach point to Strava as an example of how tech can contribute to the pressure teens face.

Dec 28, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Sara Konrath |Alison Jane Martingano |Mark Davis |Fritz Breithaupt

Types of empathy such as concern for others (a form of emotional empathy) and perspective taking (PT; a form of cognitive empathy) have consistently been linked to outcomes such as helping, volunteering (e.g., Ding & Lu, 2016; Yin & Wang, 2023), and more satisfactory social relationships (Davis, 2017). Thus, the finding that dispositional levels of empathic concern (EC) and PT declined among U.S. undergraduates from 1979 to 2009 (Konrath et al., 2011) was noteworthy.