ABSTRACT

Just as personality, values, and beliefs shape our behavior, so do institutions. We get up at 6 in the morning not because we want to, but because we work at some institution (an office, a factory, a school) where “the rules” dictate our presence in an alert state by 8 a.m. We go to church on Sunday (or Saturday, or Friday) because that’s the day our religious institution sets aside for spiritual observance.