People react better to both negative and positive events with more sleep

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 12:01 in Psychology & Sociology

New research finds that after a night of shorter sleep, people react more emotionally to stressful events the next day -- and they don't find as much joy in the good things. This has important health implications: previous research shows that being unable to maintain positive emotions in the face of stress puts people at risk of inflammation and even an earlier death.

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