DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Supplementary Motor Area, Google Trends, Cortisol
Document Summary
The implications of sleep for morality are only starting to be explored. Hypothesis: bringing morality to conscious attention requires effort a lack of sleep leads to low moral awareness. A laboratory study with a manipulation of sleep across 90 participants judging a scenario for moral content. Results: a lack of sleep leads to low moral awareness: an archival study of google trends data across 6 years. Results: a national dip in web searches for moral topics (but not other topics) on the monday after the spring time change tends to deprive people of sleep. Results: nights with a lack of sleep are associated with low moral awareness the next day. Conclusion: a lack of sleep leaves people less morally aware, with important implications for the recognition of morality in others. A social cognitive perspective of moral identity : predicts when someone will see an act as immoral or not.
