The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect

David Dickinson, David McEvoy () and David Bruner

No 14536, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and workplace settings. We experimentally manipulated participant sleep state for a full week prior to administering a stylized bargaining task that models payoff uncertainty at impasse with a final-offer arbitration (FOA) procedure. FOA use in previous trials decreases the likelihood of voluntary settlements going forward—the narcotic effect. We also report a novel result that a significantly stronger narcotic effect is estimated for more sleepy bargaining pairs. One implication is that insufficient sleep predicts increased dependency on alternatives to voluntarily resolution of interpersonal conflict.

Keywords: dispute/conflict resolution; arbitration; sleep restriction; bargaining; narcotic effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D74 D83 D90 J52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64 pages
Date: 2021-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-neu
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Published - revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.

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