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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Decision Making

Background:

Decisions in critical fields like politics, economics, and medicine are often made under sleep deprivation.
Individuals frequently integrate advice from advisors with varying levels of expertise in these contexts.
The impact of sleep deprivation on the process of advice taking remains underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether sleep deprivation influences an individual's tendency to take advice.
To examine the interplay between sleep deprivation and advisor competency in estimation tasks.

Main Methods:

A 2x2 experimental design was employed, manipulating sleep deprivation (yes vs. no) and advisor competency (medium vs. high).
Participants underwent one night of total sleep deprivation or a regular night's sleep.
Advisor competency was manipulated within subjects during an estimation task.

Main Results:

Sleep-deprived participants demonstrated significantly increased advice taking compared to well-rested participants.
An interaction effect revealed that increased advice taking in sleep deprivation was more pronounced with medium-competency advisors.
Sleep-deprived individuals showed greater improvements in judgmental accuracy when advised by high-competency advisors.

Conclusions:

Sleep deprivation alters advice-taking behavior, leading to greater reliance on external information.
The effect of sleep deprivation on advice taking is moderated by advisor expertise.
While sleep deprivation increases general advice seeking, it also enhances the benefits derived from high-quality advice.