You’ve probably heard that it’s bad for you to ignore your wake-up alarm and keep snoozing longer. But research last October, one of the first to ever try studying the effects of snoozing, should reassure any would-be snoozers.
The research, which actually involved two separate studies, found no evidence that snoozers were losers—that is to say that snoozing was not associated with poorer sleep quality compared to not snoozing. In one experiment, people who snoozed did sleep about six minutes fewer on average than non-snoozers, but the researchers found no significant difference in people’s stress hormone levels, morning sleepiness, mood, and overall sleep structure; snoozers even seemed to perform slightly better on simple tests of their cognition.
So yeah, if you’re already prone to snoozing, then feel free to keep doing it.
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