1. Time flies faster under time pressure
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Anne-Claire Rattat, Julien Cegarra, Pauline Matha, Sciences de la Cognition, Technologie, Ergonomie (SCoTE), Institut national universitaire Champollion [Albi] (INUC), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE-LTC), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Adult ,Male ,Time pressure ,Adolescent ,[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,050105 experimental psychology ,Task (project management) ,Thinking ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Time estimation ,Statistics ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Attention ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Maze Learning ,Problem Solving ,Mathematics ,Unit of time ,05 social sciences ,Scalar expectancy ,General Medicine ,Duration (music) ,Time Perception ,[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology ,Female ,Time production ,Arousal ,Photic Stimulation ,psychological phenomena and processes ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
International audience; We examined the effects of time pressure on duration estimation in a verbal estimation task and a production task. In both temporal tasks, participants had to solve mazes in two conditions of time pressure (with or without), and with three different target durations (30 s, 60 s, and 90 s). In each trial of the verbal estimation task, participants had to estimate in conventional time units (minutes and seconds) the amount of time that had elapsed since they started to solve the maze. In the production task, they had to press a key while solving the maze when they thought that the trial's duration had reached a target value. Results showed that in both tasks, durations were judged longer with time pressure than without it. However, this temporal overestimation under time pressure did not increase with the length of the target duration. These results are discussed within the framework of scalar expectancy theory.
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- 2018
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