The role of timeframes in the retrieval and temporal location judgments of past events

Two days before Friday versus 2 days from today: How future (vs. present) anchors in deadlines increase goal achievement

“…Prior literature has shown that deadlines described using certain temporal anchors change one's perceptions and goal‐pursuit behaviors (Etkin & Ratner, 2013; Goswami & Urminsky, 2020; Sokolova, 2023; Tu & Soman, 2022). For example, Beshears et al (2021) demonstrated that presenting a forthcoming time point, such as the first day of spring, as a start date of a retirement savings plan enhances the appeal of a delayed enrollment option compared to an immediate enrollment option because a future time point can make a relevant event feel distant (Peetz & Wilson, 2013).…”

When Did it Happen? Verbal Information About Causal Relations Affects Time Estimation

“…In addition to the methodological concerns the quasi-experimental design entails (see Andrade, 2021), the results observed by these authors could be asymmetrically affected by some variables. For example, estimating when an event has occurred is affected by several factors such as, for instance, how likely it is to reoccur (Si et al, 2016), how complex it is (Zakay & Block, 1997), or whether it has provided a greater contextual change (Zakay & Block, 2004), among others (see also Kaju & Maglio, 2022;Tu & Soman, 2022;Zauberman et al, 2010). Finally, these experiments did not control for some factors that could affect the participants' temporal judgments, such as, for instance, the previous knowledge that participants have about the historical events used in the task, as well as how and when participants acquired this knowledge.…”

Sparking conversations: Editors’ Pick with commentaries and thematic article compilations

“…In this issue, we feature a lead article by Si and Dai (2022) on how memory biases can impact time perception as the "Editors' Pick" and two commentaries on it-one by Tu and Soman (2022) and the other by Davis and Drolet (2022). While we are excited by all the papers we publish, on occasion, when we come across papers that present provocative findings on understudied topics that have the potential to spark conversation, we will be featuring such editors' pick articles and commentaries.…”

“…Given the possibilities for future research to develop this finding, we invited two commentaries to serve as theoretical reviews of related topic areas and link this paper with those areas. The first commentary is by Tu and Soman (2022) and it reviews in detail findings in the time perception literature. It discusses other factors that impact subjective perceptions of time, compares methods used by Si and Dai (2022) with those used in the time perception literature, and suggests ideas for future research.…”