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From the archive: ‘Time went by so slowly: Overestimation of event duration by males and females’ by E. F. Loftus, J. W. Schooler, S. M. Boone, & D. Kline (1987). Applied Cognitive Psychology , 1 , 3–13 with commentary
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1778
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , cognition , perception , time perception , experimental psychology , event (particle physics) , duration (music) , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , developmental psychology , social psychology , literature , neuroscience , art , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper appeared in the very first volume of the very first issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology and exemplifies the place of this journal in the field. The authors present an elegant theoretical framework about the study of time from philosophical and psychological traditions, and discuss how time and memory are interwoven. In a series of experiments, Loftus et al. examined participants' perception of time as a function of arousal level, and showed that arousal increases time estimations, especially for females. Throughout the manuscript, the authors knit together theoretical ideas with forensic implications, reinforcing the mission of Applied Cognitive Psychology to present the best science that also has profound implications for real world issues and applications.