This Week in The Journal
Sleep Quality in the TPJ May Contribute to Prosocial Preferences
Mirjam Studler, Lorena R. R. Gianotti, Janek Lobmaier, Angelina Maric, and Daria Knoch
(see article e0885232024)
Prosocial behaviors such as cooperativeness, helpfulness, and altruism are beneficial to society. Sleep deprivation studies suggest that lack of sleep makes us less helpful and altruistic. However, while individual changes may occur following lack of sleep, significant differences in prosocial behaviors are seen when drawing comparisons between people under normal sleep conditions. In this issue, Studler et al. investigated whether differences in prosocial behaviors between people are linked to differences in individual sleep profiles. Using electroencephalography (EEG), they measured sleep physiology …
