“…Our working hypothesis is that individuals will exhibit more dishonest choices and will engage in more unethical activities when they are sleep restricted (see, e.g., Barnes et al, 2011;Christian and Ellis, 2011;Usmani et al, 2013;Barnes et al, 2015;Welsh et al, 2018;Barnes and Watson, 2019;Gunia, 2022). We present a simple theoretical framework below that 1 Initially, the CDC used the term « public health epidemic » (see https://www.aaas.org/news/sleep-deprivationdescribed-serious-public-health-problem and https://www.sleepdr.com/the-sleep-blog/cdc-declares-sleepdisorders-a-public-health-epidemic/ ), although "public health problem" seems to now be preferred (e.g., http://medbox.iiab.me/modules/en-cdc/www.cdc.gov/features/dssleep/index.html ).…”