STUDY: A BAD NIGHT’S SLEEP MAKES YOU LESS CHARITABLE

A new study claims that having a bad night of sleep affects how supportive and charitable you are. Researchers from UC Berkeley have discovered that even an hour of sleep deprivation causes people to withdraw from helping others. They found that people are less likely to donate to charity after losing an hour of sleep due to Daylight Saving Time.
– Researchers gave an “altruism questionnaire” to assess a group of participants’ willingness to help others after a normal night of sleep and after a night of bad sleep. They monitored the subjects’ sleep patterns. They found that sleep deprivation dampens activity in the social cognition brain network. This disruption displayed a connection to the participants admitting that they had less desire to help others.
– In addition, the study also found that charitable donations dropped off by 10 percent after Daylight Saving Time.
* Have we really run out of things to study? This is the best they could do?
* If I was feeling charitable I’d give them a pass on this nonsense, but I was tossing and turning ’til 2 a.m.
* This must be why rich people always say they only get 3 hours of sleep a night. ‘Cause they’re sure not giving their money away.
* It’s true. We never get any sleep, and when was the last time any of us (your morning team) brought in a box of donuts?