Sleep Deprived? How It Affects Reading Emotions

Tired Telecommuter

New research has come out from the University of California at Berkeley that says if you are tried, your ability to distinguish between happy and angry facial expressions of moderate intensity drops significantly. Sleep deprived people rated these faces as less angry and less happy than they did when they got enough sleep.

If you have an important meeting or interview, and you want to be able to understand those around you, I have advice for you: Make sure you get a good night’s sleep! Ironically, I require a lot of sleep and make it a point to get it every day!

You can read a summary of the research here, here and here.