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Sleep And Moral Awareness, Christopher M. Barnes, Brian C. Gunia, David T. Wagner
Sleep And Moral Awareness, Christopher M. Barnes, Brian C. Gunia, David T. Wagner
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The implications of sleep for morality are only starting to be explored. Extending the ethics literature, we contend that because bringing morality to conscious attention requires effort, a lack of sleep leads to low moral awareness. We test this prediction with three studies. A laboratory study with a manipulation of sleep across 90 participants judging a scenario for moral content indicates that a lack of sleep leads to low moral awareness. An archival study of Google Trends data across 6 years highlights a national dip in Web searches for moral topics (but not other topics) on the Monday after the …