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The Effects of Time of Day and Social Isolation on the Relationship Between Temperament and Performance
Author(s) -
COLQUHOUN W. P.,
CORCORAN D. W. J.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00431.x
Subject(s) - extraversion and introversion , psychology , morning , temperament , arousal , social isolation , social psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , isolation (microbiology) , personality , big five personality traits , medicine , psychiatry , paleontology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
In an experiment on cancelling letters in English prose the relationship between output and degree of introversion was found to depend both on the time of day at which the task was performed and on the social situation in which subjects were tested. Performance correlated positively with introversion in morning test sessions when subjects were isolated from each other, but when testing was in the afternoon, or when subjects worked together in a group, this relationship was destroyed. The results are discussed in relation to an arousal theory of introversion‐extraversion.