Evidence for content-dependent timing of real-life events during COVID-19 crisis.

ABSTRACT: How do people estimate the time of past events? A prominent hypothesis suggests that there are multiple timing systems which operate in parallel, depending on circumstances. However, quantitative evidence supporting this hypothesis focused solely on short time-scales (seconds to minutes) and lab-produced events. Furthermore, these studies typically examined the effect of the circumstance and the psychological state of the participant rather than the content of the timed events. Here, we provide, for the first time, support for multiple content-based timing systems when estimating the time of real-life events over long time-scales. The study was conducted during the COVID-19 crisis, which provided a rare opportunity to examine real-life time perception when many were exposed to similar mean

SUBMITTER: Taub K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161651 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature