Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior
The purpose of this book is to survey the limited scientific knowledge about how sleep intersects with personality and social behavior. This edited volume establishes a new interdisciplinary field of inquiry about sleep that examines sleep processes in th
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Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior
Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior
Zlatan Križan Editor
Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior
Editor Zlatan Križan Department of Psychology Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA
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Preface
Every book is a product of hard work and happenstance, and this volume is no different. Sleeping is a fundamental organismic process, providing a relief from our waking hours that define most of our life. Daily cycles in energy, consciousness, and enthusiasm color every aspect of human functioning, which is why they deserve center stage in science of human behavior. Thus, understanding sleep is an essential component of understanding what it means to be awake, so a full account of human psychology must address this primordial rhythm in sleep-wake states. Although many may agree with this claim, many domains of psychology and behavioral science are still relatively ignorant about the nature of sleep, its importance for how people function while awake, and the challenges sleep is undergoing in the modern technological age. That sleep is important for learning and physical health is broadly accepted, but the fact that sleep-wake processes wiggle their way into virtually every aspect of human behavior is less appreciated. In fact, how we sleep may be a core aspect of our personal constitution. As a personality-social psychologist who focuses on sleep-wake processes, I was shocked at the paucity of scholarly work on the intersection of sleep, social processes, and persona
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