介绍:
A recent study has linked people's ethical inclinations to their internal clocks, finding that the level of dishonesty was intensified in those outside of their preferred time of day.
Researchers from John Hopkins, Washington and Georgetown Universities conducted the study titled "The Morality of Larks and Owls"by experimenting on 200 candidates. The experiments were made up of a series of tests and games that were designed to measure the participants' honesty as well as working out whether they were an early rising lark or a late night owl.
The research concluded that people displayed different levels of honesty depending on their chronotype. Larktypes were more likely to lie in the evening when they were less alert, as opposed to their late night owl counterparts.
Experts have also suggested that these findingsmay change the stereotype that people in night owl category tend to be more unethical.
(JA) theworldwelivein34 from newscron.com comments
Wow these findings do not make any sense... People lie because society has changed them into that... Not by how early a person wakes up...
(QD) brother Anthony from newscron.com says
I am an excellent liar but that is due to constant practise. It started at School when I always seemed to be in trouble and has continued ever since. Its not getting up early that counts, its the planning and practise.
(FA) Alex from dailymail.co.uk comments
Do people actually get paid for this kind of nonsense research??? If you're a liar you're a liar and if you're honest you're honest. It's simple. Nothing to do with how early you get up. Good grief.
Notes:
- The students were also asked a series of questions in order to see whether they were night owls or larks
- Questions included how alert they felt when they woke up, what time of day they felt at their best and when they felt like going to bed.
- Morning types were more likely to cheat and inflate their scores in the evening – likely because they were low in the mental energy needed to resist temptation.
Owls, in contrast, tended to lie in the morning, when they were sleepy. This means that the dishonesty is balanced out between the two types of people - it just happens at different times of the day.
- Previous research has shown that those who pride themselves in being honest are most likely to lapse when tried.
- In contrast, those who lie with ease practise less self-control to begin with and so are less affected by sleepiness.
- There was also a previous study which proved that night owls were more nefarious than morning people. In the study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, researchers from Liverpool Hope University and the University of Western Sydney found that people with a night-time predisposition were more likely to have traits of the "Dark Triad." The Dark Triad is a group of characteristics that includes narcissism, Machiavellianism (indicative of being manipulative) and psychopathy.
(JA) charlesSpeirceCLONE from newser.com comments
Persons who need a study like this to dissuade them from a prejudice are not worth dissuading, and researchers who see this as an appropriate way to dissuade prejudice need to restudy their logic.
(QD) K.C. from newser.com comments
Hey wait a minute. If my group lies in the morning and the other group lies at night, why is my group supposed to be superior? Aren't we the same?
(FA) wittgensteinsfoot from telegraph.co.uk says
It requires energy (blood glucose) to resist temptation of any kind. As glucose levels deplete temptations become much harder to resist. Pretty straightforward really.
