SIO335: Are There Morning People and Night People? What the Science Says
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Day man! Fighter of the night man! As someone who has never been able to wake up in the morning, I've always been curious how much of that was determined and how much I might have control over it. What does the science say? Dr. Lindsey Osterman is here to teach us! There are a lot of interesting factors that go into it.
Links:
Bear, Wolf, Lion, & Dolphin Sleep Types, Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire, Adan & Almirall (1991) Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire: A reduced scale, Munich ChronoType Questionnaire, Roenneberg (2019) Chronotype and social jetlag: A (self-) critical review, Yetish et al (2015) Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies, Kalmbach et al (2017) Genetic basis of chronotype in humans, Roenneberg et al (2007) Epidemiology of the human circadian clock, Hagenauer & Lee (2013) Adolescent sleep patterns in humans and laboratory animals, Shawa, Rae, & Roden (2018) Impact of seasons on an individual's chronotype
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquires Only. This is episode 335. I'm Thomas, that's Lindsey, |
| 0:18.3 | we're both groggy because it's noon. Indeed. No, and then we decided it would be good |
| 0:25.4 | like tie-in to the episode if we both, you know, truly didn't sleep well because we're not |
| 0:32.0 | morning people because we're going to be talking about morning versus day man versus night |
| 0:37.6 | man champion karate and friendship. It's very exciting. How are you doing today? Oh, man. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, things are dark, I guess, but but I'm excited. I'm excited about the fun science |
| 0:47.4 | thingy. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Yeah, it's this perfect timing for this episode |
| 0:51.2 | because I'm struggling. I'm going to mention it on a show. I'm struggling with Arlo, again, |
| 0:57.2 | with that he's just, he's a morning dude. He's a morning dude. I'm, we're in the middle |
| 1:02.4 | of just trying to get the slightest compromise going like just a little bit of, he wants to |
| 1:08.8 | wake up at, you know, five, six and just be ready to start his day and that sucks. That's |
| 1:15.9 | not compatible with life on this planet. And so we're, I'm trying to do a thing. We've |
| 1:23.5 | got, we already had like, we used to have the clock that turns green and tells them to |
| 1:27.2 | come out, you know, that's a cool. But like, we kind of forgot about it because they just, |
| 1:31.4 | I don't know, they just ignored it or I think Arlo is too small to understand it for |
| 1:35.0 | a while. So we kind of forgot about it. But which I was like, okay, we got to try to do |
| 1:39.5 | that. We have to try to do it. Compromise, you know, 7.45 a.m. That's like, you know, |
| 1:45.9 | that's still pretty early. It's really early for me. That's still, still early. And we, |
| 1:51.0 | he can't do it. He comes in at round at, at the latest like 6.45 or 7 a.m. He, he just |
| 1:58.5 | comes and beats on the door and screams like he's dying and like we've abandoned my boy. |
| 2:02.8 | And this is, it's, I don't know what to do. So I've, I've tried all these methods. I've |
| 2:08.2 | tried like setting out his food like ready for him to get to, you know, and, but it's all |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Thomas Smith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Thomas Smith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

