Rationality around the clock: Sleep and time-of-day effects on guessing game responses

David Dickinson and Todd McElroy

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 2, 245-248

Abstract: We administer an online Guessing Game collecting responses across all 24Â h of the day. While time-of-day itself does not affect guesses, when including trait-level sleepiness and previous night sleep, adverse sleep states lead to responses significantly farther from equilibrium.

Keywords: Experiments; Rationality; Sleep; Guessing; game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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