Poor Sleep May Impair the Ability to Feel Empathy.
Linda Wasmer Andrews If you don’t snooze, you lose some of your capacity for emotional empathy. Posted Oct 03, 2016 Emotional empathy is the ability to share the emotional experience of others. It’s often the driving force behind caring, compassionate behavior. And it’s something that may be in short supply after a bad night’s sleep, according to anew study published online last month by the Journal of Psychophysiology. Lead author Veronica Guadagni, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate at NeuroLab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, sums up the main finding this way: “If individuals describe their quality …
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