Sleep and moral awareness

• Main Authors: BARNES, Christopher M., GUNIA, Brian C., WAGNER, David T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: behavioural ethics; ethics; moral awareness; sleep; Mental and Social Health; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5509; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6508/viewcontent/Sleep_and_moral_awareness.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 wit...