Who would you want in your life?: Discrimination against morning and evening people

<p>"Previous research has demonstrated that people have stereotypes of morning people and evening people. People tend to view morning individuals more favorably than evening individuals. The present study sought to observe whether people also discriminate against morning and evening people. One hundred fifty-six undergraduate students from Eastern Washington University were- asked to rate how likely they would be to choose to do certain activities with a morning person or an evening person. Participants were also given a self-report measure of their own circadian preference. Participants chose to do activities with morning people that aligned with the previous stereotypes of morning people. Participants also chose to do activities with evening people that aiigned with the previous stereotypes of evening people. Participants demonstrated an overall preference for people in their own circadian preference group as well. Overall this study supported the past literature on stereotypes of both morning and evening people as well as the tendency toward self-bias"--Document.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS) in Psychology: Clinical

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis: EWU Only

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Yotz, Jamie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Amani El-Alayli
• Russell Kolts
• Chadron Hazelbaker

• College students--Washington (State)--Cheney--Psychology
• College students--Washington (State)--Cheney--Attitudes
• Stereotypes (Social psychology)
• Circadian rhythms
• Psychology

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Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/104

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.ewu.edu:theses-1103