Time perception in children in the absence of external temporal synchronizers

Crawford, M; Thor, Donald H.

doi:10.1016/0001-6918(67)90015-7

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“…S. Ogden, 2020). Interestingly, the results of the present paper and other studies investigating temporal experience during the COVID-19 pandemic indicate that, even when participants have full access to temporal markers such as clocks (Crawford & Thor, 1967;Siffre, 1964;Thor & Crawford, 1964), sunlight and structured daily activities, changes in time awareness are associated with social isolation.…”

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“…Temporal experience is not immune to contextual and individual factors and is modulated by several factors, such as boredom, impulsivity, anxiety, routine, and emotions (Droit-Volet et al, 2013;Wittmann, 2009). Not surprisingly, it has been shown that subjective time is also affected in isolation-based experiments (e.g., people isolated in bunkers or caves) (Crawford & Thor, 1967;Siffre, 1964;Thor & Crawford, 1964). One key aspect of isolation-based experiments is that they are based on the radical removal of any time markers in the environment (e.g., clocks and sunlight).…”

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Time experience in social isolation: a longitudinal study during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Cravo¹,

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et al. 2021

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Social distancing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic brought several modifications in our daily lives. With these changes, some people have reported alterations in their feelings of how fast time was passing. In this study, we assessed whether and how social distancing influenced participants' time awareness and production of time intervals. Participants (n=3855) filled the first questionnaire approximately 60 days after the start of social isolation in Brazil and weekly questionnaires for 15 weeks during social distancing. Our results indicate that time was perceived as expanded at the beginning of social isolation, but this feeling decreased across the weeks. Time awareness was strongly associated with psychological factors such as loneliness, stress, and positive emotions, but not with time production. This relation was shown between participants and within their longitudinal reports. Taken together, our findings show how emotions are a crucial aspect of how time is felt.

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confidence: 39%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time experience in social isolation: a longitudinal study during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Cravo¹,

Gb²,

Cmb³

et al. 2021

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“…The idea that significant deviation from "normal" may affect the passage of time is not new. Previous research has examined the effects of being confined to a nuclear fallout bunker [17,18] or self-isolating alone in a cave for a period of weeks or months [19]. In these situations, life was significantly different to normal and significant distortions to the passage of time were observed.…”

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The passage of time during the UK Covid-19 lockdown

2020

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In March 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK Government imposed social and physical distancing measures on the population. These lockdown measures caused significant changes to all aspects of daily life. The current study examined how the passage of time was distorted during the lockdown period. Using an online questionnaire, day and week passage of time judgments were collected. In addition, measures of affect, task load and satisfaction with current levels of social interaction were taken. The results show that over 80% of participants experienced distortion to the passage of time during lockdown in comparison with normal. The passage of time during the day was predicted by age, stress, task load and satisfaction with current levels of social interaction. A slowing of the passage of time was associated with increasing age, increasing stress, reduced task load and reduced satisfaction with current levels of social interaction. Only age and satisfaction with current levels of social interaction predicted passage of time across a week. Again, increasing age and reduced satisfaction with levels of social interaction were associated with a slowing of the passage of time. These findings demonstrate that significant changes to daily life have a significant impact on our experience of time, with younger, more socially satisfied people more likely to experience time as passing more quickly during the lockdown.

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“…Using the method of verbal estimation, Axel (1924) and Crawford and Thor (1967) examined time estimation in children and adults. Smythe and Goldstone (1957) examined it by a modified method of limits.…”

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A longitudinal study of learning process of duration estimation in young children

Matsuda

1983

Jpn. Psychol. Res

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Learning processes in accuracy of duration estimation were examined several times by the response duration schedule at about semiannual intervals on the same children as they grew from three to six years old. The apparatus was a picture of a boy moving along a path with a constant speed, the start-and-stop being controlled by a button. The subject was instructed to push the button exactly for the duration required for the boy start moving and stop at a goal which took 10 s. The moving boy and the goal were hidden from the subject's view, and only after each trial he received visual and verbal feedbacks. Almost all children over three years eight months of age could sucessfully carry out the task. Numbers of trials to reach the criterion and errors in the response durations decreased with age.

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Time perception in children in the absence of external temporal synchronizers

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Time experience in social isolation: a longitudinal study during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

Time experience in social isolation: a longitudinal study during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

The passage of time during the UK Covid-19 lockdown

A longitudinal study of learning process of duration estimation in young children

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