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Sleep and prejudice: a resource recovery approach
Author(s) -
Ghumman Sonia,
Barnes Christopher M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12045
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , psychology , social psychology , sleep (system call) , ego depletion , resource (disambiguation) , self control , computer network , computer science , operating system
Does sleepiness make one more likely to engage in stereotyping? Are people more likely to be prejudiced because of a poor night of sleep? Borrowing from ego depletion theory and research on self‐control and prejudice, the present work investigates these questions. We suggest that sleep is a diminishable resource that fuels self‐control and is, therefore, necessary for inhibiting prejudice. A series of 3 studies show that sleep did influence prejudice. Furthermore, we found that the relationship between sleep and prejudice was marginally moderated by negative implicit associations, such that this relationship primarily held true for individuals who have high negative implicit associations. These results highlight the critical role that sleep plays in suppressing prejudice.