Sleep deprivation affects reactivity to positive but not negative stimuli

Pilcher, June J.; Callan, Christina; Posey, J. Laura

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.05.003

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“…Thus, receiving adequate sleep may buffer the effects of poor working memory on alcohol use, leading to decreased alcohol use among those with the skills and cognitive resources necessary to consider the consequences of their drinking. Such findings would be consistent with the idea that sleep replenishes one’s capacity for self-control (Pilcher et al, 2015). …”

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confidence: 84%

Impulsive personality traits and alcohol use: Does sleeping help with thinking?

Miller

DiBello

Lust

et al. 2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Objective Both impulsivity and sleep disturbance have been associated with heavy alcohol use among young adults; yet studies to date have not examined their interactive effects. The current study aimed to determine if adequate sleep moderates the association between impulsive personality traits and alcohol use among young adults. Method College students (N = 568) who had been mandated to alcohol treatment following violation of campus alcohol policy provided information regarding alcohol use and related consequences, impulsive personality traits (measured using the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale), and perception of sleep adequacy as part of a larger intervention trial. Results Higher urgency, lower premeditation, and higher sensation-seeking predicted greater levels of alcohol consumption, while higher urgency predicted more alcohol-related consequences. As hypothesized, there was a significant interaction between premeditation and sleep adequacy in the prediction of drinks per week; in contrast to hypotheses, however, premeditation was associated with drinking only among those reporting adequate (rather than inadequate) sleep. Specifically, the tendency to premeditate was associated with less drinking among those who reported adequate sleep and was not associated with drinking among those reporting inadequate sleep. Conclusion Sensation-seeking and urgency are associated with greater alcohol involvement among young adults, regardless of sleep adequacy. Conversely, the ability to plan ahead and anticipate the consequences of one’s behaviors (premeditation) is only protective against heavy drinking among individuals receiving adequate sleep. With replication, these findings may inform alcohol prevention and intervention efforts.

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confidence: 84%

Impulsive personality traits and alcohol use: Does sleeping help with thinking?

Miller

DiBello

Lust

et al. 2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…• We complement the results from the work by Müller and Fritz [19] by showing that sleep deprivationusually associated with reduced blood flow in several regions of the brain and changes in body temperature [27]-causes a severe decrease in the capacity of developers to write code that matches functional requirements. Medical research has shown that sleep deprivation negatively affects the responsiveness to stimuli from the same kind of emotions [34]. These outcomes can explain our results regarding sleepdeprived developers low engagement in performing even a small development task.…”

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Need for Sleep: The Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance

Fucci¹,

Scanniello

Romano

et al. 2020

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent, sleep deprivation impacts the performance of novice software developers using the agile practice of test-first development (TFD). We recruited 45 undergraduates, and asked them to tackle a programming task. Among the participants, 23 agreed to stay awake the night before carrying out the task, while 22 slept normally. We analyzed the quality (i.e., the functional correctness) of the implementations delivered by the participants in both groups, their engagement in writing source code (i.e., the amount of activities performed in the IDE while tackling the programming task) and ability to apply TFD (i.e., the extent to which a participant is able to apply this practice). By comparing the two groups of participants, we found that a single night of sleep deprivation leads to a reduction of 50% in the quality of the implementations. There is notable evidence that the developers' engagement and their prowess to apply TFD are negatively impacted. Our results also show that sleep-deprived developers make more fixes to syntactic mistakes in the source code. We conclude that sleep deprivation has possibly disruptive effects on software development activities. The results open opportunities for improving developers' performance by integrating the study of sleep with other psycho-physiological factors in which the software engineering research community has recently taken an interest in.

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“…Sleep deprivation has also been found to increase neural activity in reward networks when presented with positive pictures (Gujar et al, ). On the other hand, some evidence points to a dampened emotional response after sleep deprivation (Pilcher, Callan, & Posey, ). Taken together, previous research shows emotional dysregulation after sleep deprivation.…”

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Effect of sleep deprivation on emotional working memory

Gerhardsson

Åkerstedt

Axelsson

et al. 2018

Journal of Sleep Research

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The emotional dysregulation and impaired working memory found after sleep loss can have severe implications for our daily functioning. Considering the intertwined relationship between emotion and cognition in stimuli processing, there could be further implications of sleep deprivation in high-complex emotional situations.Although studied separately, this interaction between emotion and cognitive processes has been neglected in sleep research. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of 1 night of sleep deprivation on emotional working memory.Sixty-one healthy participants (mean age: 23.4 years) were either sleep deprived for 1 night (n = 30) or had a normal night's sleep (n = 31). They performed an N-back task with two levels of working memory load (1-back and 3-back) using positive, neutral and negative picture scenes. Sleep deprivation, compared with full night sleep, impaired emotional working memory accuracy, but not reaction times. The sleep-deprived participants, but not the controls, responded faster to positive than to negative and neutral pictures. The effect of sleep deprivation was similar for both high and low working memory loads. The results showed that although detrimental in terms of accuracy, sleep deprivation did not impair working memory speed. In fact, our findings indicate that positive stimuli may facilitate working memory processing speed after sleep deprivation. K E Y W O R D Saffective significance, executive functions, positivity effect, sleep loss, sustained wakefulness

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Sleep deprivation affects reactivity to positive but not negative stimuli

Cited by 37 publications

References 43 publications

Impulsive personality traits and alcohol use: Does sleeping help with thinking?

Impulsive personality traits and alcohol use: Does sleeping help with thinking?

Need for Sleep: The Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance

Effect of sleep deprivation on emotional working memory

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