Smithsonion: Don't Hate Early Risers: It’s the Night Owls You Should Worry About"

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Smithsonion: Don't Hate Early Risers: It’s the Night Owls You Should Worry About"

uh oh desh may be right, I could actually be a sociopath :eek:

In a new paper Peter Jonason and his colleagues provide evidence that in humans certain personality types act as a form of adaptation that correlates with a preference for daily or nightly living (a person's "chronotype"). Specifically the researchers have shown that people with a preference for the evening and night-time tend to score highly on the "Dark Triad" of personality traits - Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism.
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Across the sample, average Dark Triad trait scores correlated negatively with chronotype scores (r was -.14, p<.001 where -1 would be a perfect correlation). That is, the darker a person's personality score, the more they tended to be an "owl" and to say they functioned more effectively in the evening. Drilling down into the individual subscales: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and the entitlement/exploitativeness aspects of narcissism all correlated on their own with eveningness on the chronotype questionnaire.
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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/sma...rs-its-the-night-owls-you-should-worry-about/

http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2013/07/creatures-of-night-people-who-favour.html
 
awwwww yeeeee dark triad. Sounds so cool. Maybe people wouldn't have such extreme personality disorders if scientists didn't give them such cool names.
 
I am a natural night owl as was my mother, my youngest brother and my grandmother. I am a blues musician and singer and 7am ain't nothing to me. No one else in the family seems to be effected by this anomaly but I think the conclusions of the Smithsonian are bullshit at best. Maybe funded by someone that has a hard on for night owls?

Petula
 
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