AUDIO: LACK OF SLEEP MAKES YOU ANTI-SOCIAL
Research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that not getting enough sleep can make a person more anti-social. (* Your co-host: “Really?” You: “Shut up.”) The study finds that chronically sleep-deprived people feel lonelier and less inclined to be around or engaging with others. They avoid close contact in many of the same ways as those with severe social anxiety. In addition, the study finds that the alienating energy produced by sleep-deprived people also makes them more socially unattractive to others. The study shows well-rested people often feel lonely after a brief encounter with a sleep-deprived person, showing that social isolation can be contagious.
* For their study on lack of sleep, the researchers interviewed EVERY SINGLE COLLEGE STUDENT.
* You would think the point of this study would be obvious and self-evident to anyone, and that’s because it is.
* They could have saved a lot of space in the journal Nature Communications by just shortening this to “Lack of sleep = cranky.”
* Their next breakthrough study will investigate whether lack of sleep makes you tired.
* As a morning radio personality, we’re hired to be social and engaging. That’s why they make us get up at 4:30 in the morning.
CLIP: From “Tommy Boy”, the “Let me sleep for the love of God!!” scene.
