Journal article
Sleep deprivation and advice taking
- Abstract:
- Judgements and decisions in many political, economic or medical contexts are often made while sleep deprived. Furthermore, in such contexts individuals are required to integrate information provided by – more or less qualified – advisors. We asked if sleep deprivation affects advice taking. We conducted a 2 (sleep deprivation: yes vs. no) ×2 (competency of advisor: medium vs. high) experimental study to examine the effects of sleep deprivation on advice taking in an estimation task. We compared participants with one night of total sleep deprivation to participants with a night of regular sleep. Competency of advisor was manipulated within subjects. We found that sleep deprived participants show increased advice taking. An interaction of condition and competency of advisor and further post-hoc analyses revealed that this effect was more pronounced for the medium competency advisor compared to the high competency advisor. Furthermore, sleep deprived participants benefited more from an advisor of high competency in terms of stronger improvement in judgmental accuracy than well-rested participants.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/srep24386
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- Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Journals - Option C
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports More from this journal
- Volume:
- 6
- Publication date:
- 2016-04-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-03-22
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2045-2322
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- Jan Alexander Häusser et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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