Lee, YM orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-4191 and Janssen, SMJ (2019) Laypeople’s Beliefs Affect their Reports about the Subjective Experience of Time. Timing and Time Perception, 7 (1). pp. 15-26. ISSN 2213-445X
Abstract
Because the general population may be familiar with the phenomenon that life appears to speed up as people become older, participants’ preconceptions may affect how they answer questionnaires about the subjective experience of time. To be able to account for these preconceptions in future research, we assessed laypeople’s beliefs about the phenomenon. Participants (N = 313) were asked whether they were familiar with the phenomenon, whether they experienced the phenomenon themselves, and what they thought that the cause or causes of the phenomenon may be. More than 80% of the participants had read or heard about the phenomenon prior to the study, suggesting that the phenomenon is well-known among the general population. Furthermore, although most participants experienced the phenomenon themselves, familiarity with the phenomenon affected whether they felt that life appeared to speeding up and whether time passed fast for them. Familiarity also affected whether participants attributed the phenomenon to changes in objective or subjective time but not the endorsement of the phenomenon’s causes. Finally, participants also had preconceptions about what time periods represent ‘the present’ and ‘the past’. Whereas nearly all participants considered the past to have lasted more than one year, two-third of the participants felt that the present represented a period less than one year.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Timing and Time Perception. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Time perception; time experience; laypeople; beliefs; preconceptions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Safety and Technology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2019 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2020 01:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/22134468-20181140 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141360 |