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! :eek: :eek:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
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
uh oh desh may be right, I could actually be a sociopath
![Eek! :eek: :eek:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
..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.
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.
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