An Experimental Investigation of Sleep Restriction and Discrimination

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dc.contributor.advisorScullin, Michael K.
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Stacy
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.otherDr. Mikki Hebl, Rice Universityen_US
dc.contributor.schoolsUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-21T14:21:34Z
dc.date.available2018-05-21T14:21:34Z
dc.date.copyright2018
dc.date.issued2018-05-21
dc.description.abstractInequalities of gender, sexual orientation, and race have spurred recent protests against discrimination. The resource depletion theory of discrimination argues that cognitive resources suppress the expression of internal prejudice, but that because cognitive resources are limited, discriminatory behavior may emerge when resources are depleted. We investigated whether sleep deprivation can affect cognitive resources and thus increase discriminatory behavior. 44 adults participated in a two-session study consisting of several cognitive and discrimination tasks. Participants were randomly assigned to bedtimes of either 10:30pm or 1:30am with wake times of 7:30am for four nights in between the two sessions. Sleep-restricted individuals showed more attentional lapses, higher mood disturbances, and greater subjective sleepiness. Sleep restriction also resulted in harsher ratings toward medical mistakes and female job applicants as well as a shooter task bias toward White-person stimuli. Interestingly, regardless of sleep, participants revealed an overall race bias toward Black-person stimuli in total shots fired.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/10222
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsBaylor University projects are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. Contact libraryquestions@baylor.edu for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectSleep.en_US
dc.subjectDiscrimination.en_US
dc.subjectSleep restriction.en_US
dc.titleAn Experimental Investigation of Sleep Restriction and Discriminationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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