night owls

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, night owls has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Nov 2025).

A chronotype is the behavioral manifestation of an underlying circadian rhythm's myriad physical processes. A person's chronotype is the propensity for the individual to sleep at a particular time during a 24-hour period. Eveningness and morningness are the two extremes with most individuals having some flexibility in the timing of their sleep period. However, across development there are changes in the propensity of the sleep period with pre-pubescent children preferring an advanced sleep peri