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Time went by so slowly: Overestimation of event duration by males and females
Author(s) -
Loftus Elizabeth F.,
Schooler Jonathan W.,
Boone Stanley M.,
Kline Donald
Publication year - 1987
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.2350010103
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , recall , duration (music) , event (particle physics) , audiology , time perception , developmental psychology , statistics , social psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology , mathematics , medicine , psychiatry , acoustics , physics , quantum mechanics
In three experiments, 469 subjects watched a short videotape of a bank robbery and later estimated the duration of the tape. Subjects invariably overestimated the durations. Accuracy of time estimation was unrelated to amount of free recall (Experiment 1) or accuracy of memory (Experiment 2). Females overestimated to a greater degree than males (Experiments 2 and 3). A more stressful version of the event produced greater overestimates than a less stressful version (Experiment 3). The relationship between induced arousal and time estimation appears to be different for men and women.