Unethical Decision Making and Sleep Restriction: Experimental Evidence
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چکیده
Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious processes. We randomly assigned participants a multi-night sleep manipulation, after which they completed 3 tasks interest: imperfectly identifiable dishonesty (the Coin Flip task), Matrix and anti-social allocation choices Money Burning game). document validity protocol via significantly reduced nightly levels (objectively measured using validated instrumentation) higher sleepiness ratings in sleep-restricted (SR) group compared wellrested (WR) group. report that money burning decisions are not statistically different between SR WR participants. However, regarding honesty, we find significant robust effects honesty. In total, given connection deliberation, these results add literature identified conditions under deliberation impacts choice. When harms an abstract “other” person (e.g., researcher’s budget), increases when harm done someone at closer social distance another subject). Key Words: Ethical choice, dishonesty, antisocial behavior, sleep.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Research Network
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1556-5068']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3892565