TY - RPRT AU - Dickinson, David L. AU - McEvoy, David M. AU - Bruner, David TI - The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect PY - 2021/Jul/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 14536 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14536 AB - 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. KW - dispute/conflict resolution KW - arbitration KW - sleep restriction KW - bargaining KW - narcotic effect ER -