The science is clear: lack of sleep makes us selfish and antisocial
US researchers have shown that one hour of lost sleep can affect the brain’s ability to communicate with others and thus do well around you.
sIt takes a few minutes to think about it. Aren’t you in a better mood when you sleep well? Without wanting to indulge in a cliché with Disney sauce, the people around us always seem a little less annoyed when we’ve spent eight hours in the arms of Morpheus, right? Well, according to an American study published in Journal of Biology PLoS and leave by WatchmanAnd the opposite is scientifically verified. Lack of sleep leads to behaviors more selfishness and antisocial. To achieve these results, a team from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted an experiment on 24 people in two stages. The group, twice, answered the same questionnaire regarding situations in which they had to choose whether to help someone or not, the first time after a good sleep and the second after a whole night’s rest.
Sleep quality above all
The results are promising. Study participants were tired .78 % less likely to help their neighbor. And that’s whether they’re complete strangers or the people around them. The results can also be seen thanks to their brain scanner. Then the social behavior part was stimulated quite a bit due to fatigue.
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And the researchers went further because, unless you have a really busy life or an abnormal pace, you won’t get a full night every day. But what can be more common is missing an hour of sleep from time to time, especially at bedtime. change the clock, for example. Looking at the number of charitable donations before and after the DST weekend, the Berkeley team noticed a 10% drop in donations, indicating that Decreased altruism with lost hour.
“The good thing, notes one researcher, is that once you return to an adequate and adequate sleep schedule, Desire to help others. But we must understand that it is not enough to sleep for a long time, we must sleep well. Quality is equally or more important of quantity.”
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