Research Suggests That Poor Sleeping Habits Will Transform You
into an Ungrateful Monster That No One Could Possibly Love  A
new study from the big brains at UC Berkeley suggests that
spouses or live-in paramours who complain of feeling
unappreciated probably aren't getting enough sleep, which is
turning them into selfish sourpusses too sleep-deprived to offer
simple tokens of gratitude like saying, "Thank-you my dearest
dearie dear, my honey pot of sweet, sweet love, my jigsaw
counterpart, my talking orgasm machine, for not stuffing chicken
bones down the garbage disposal."  Lead researcher Amie Gordon,
a UC Berkeley psychologist investigating the ways in which sleep
deprivation can impact gratitude among couples, is presenting
her findings today, probably as we're all still wiping the sleep
out of our eyes, at a convocation of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology in New Orleans. "Poor sleep," explained
Gordon, "may make us more selfish as we prioritize our own needs
over our partner's." The fin