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Monday, October 1, 2012

Should you really sleep on a tough decision? We’ll ask an expert...


If you have an important decision to make, scientific evidence now supports the “sleep on it” approach... 

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, had one group of participants sleep 12 hours before completing the Iowa Gamling Test, which involves decision making. The group that slept on it made more rewarding decisions the next day.

Rebecca Spensor, author of the study, explains that sleep fine-tunes memory and sharpens learning. She says while we sleep, we are actually revisiting a lot of information that we’ve stored, giving the logical data a better chance to take hold and prevail.

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