Are you getting enough sleep now-a-day? If not, the people around you must be noticing as sleep deprivation can make you a selfish person and affect your decision-making skills too.
Having a good night's sleep is very important and is recognized as one of life's essential processes, and is beneficial to physical health, mental health and even mortality.
But do you know that sleepless nights can also lead to selfish behaviour affecting how likely a person is to help someone, according to new research? Researchers from the University of California conducted studies looking at this "selfish" effect, and the results were shocking.
"Even just an hour of sleep loss was more than enough to influence the choice to help another,"-said Ben Simon, a postdoctoral fellow of psychology at the Centre for Human Sleep Science.
"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."
In another study, which measured the sleep of more than 100 people across three to four nights, researchers unexpectedly found that quality of sleep was more important than the quantity of sleep when it came to measuring selfishness.
So, readers, have a good night’s sleep without any distractions to keep your inner kindness alive and help others as much as you can.