Make sure to hit the hay early tonight A new study has found that not getting enough sleep at night can actually make a person more selfish!
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted three studies looking at this "selfish" effect, analyzing changes in neural activity and behavior benefiting others, and found it was “prevalent even after a small loss of sleep.”
One of the study leads Ben Simon, a postdoctoral fellow of psychology at the Center for Human Sleep Science, told CNN, “Even just an hour of sleep loss was more than enough to influence the choice to help another. When people lose one hour of sleep, there's a clear hit on our innate human kindness and our motivation to help other people in need."
Ben Simon and Matthew Walker, the other study lead and a professor of neuroscience and psychology at UC Berkeley and director of the university's Center for Human Sleep Science, hope their research will allow people to “reclaim a full night of sleep without embarrassment or the stigma of laziness.”
Walker says, "(Sleep loss) radically alters how we are as social, emotional beings, which you could argue is the very essence of human interaction and what it means to live a fulfilling, meaningful human existence.”
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