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The explicit judgment of long durations of several minutes in everyday life: Conscious retrospective memory judgment and the role of affects?

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  • Sylvie Droit-Volet
  • Sophie Monceau
  • Mickaël Berthon
  • Panos Trahanias
  • Michail Maniadakis

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In this study, individuals estimated interval times of several minutes (from 2 to 32 minutes) during their everyday lives using a cell phone they kept with them. Their emotional state, the difficulty of the activity performed during this interval, and the attention that it required were also assessed, together with their subjective experience of the passage of time. The results showed that the mean time estimates and their variability increased linearly with increasing interval duration, indicating that the fundamental scalar property of time found for short durations also applies to very long durations of several minutes. In addition, the emotional state and difficulty of the activity were significant predictors of the judgment of long durations. However, the awareness of the passage of time appeared to play a crucial role in the judgment of very long duration in humans. A theory on the emergence of the awareness of the passage of time and how it affects the judgment of interval durations lasting several minutes is therefore discussed.

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  • Sylvie Droit-Volet & Sophie Monceau & Mickaël Berthon & Panos Trahanias & Michail Maniadakis, 2018. "The explicit judgment of long durations of several minutes in everyday life: Conscious retrospective memory judgment and the role of affects?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(4), pages 1-17, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0195397
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195397
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    1. Simon Tobin & Nicolas Bisson & Simon Grondin, 2010. "An Ecological Approach to Prospective and Retrospective Timing of Long Durations: A Study Involving Gamers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(2), pages 1-9, February.
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    1. Sylvie Droit-Volet & Magali Chaulet & Frederic Dutheil & Michaël Dambrun, 2019. "Mindfulness meditation, time judgment and time experience: Importance of the time scale considered (seconds or minutes)," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(10), pages 1-22, October.
    2. Ruth S Ogden, 2020. "The passage of time during the UK Covid-19 lockdown," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(7), pages 1-16, July.

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