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Make Time for Awe
The Atlantic: Jason Silva is a self-described epiphany junkie. He recently enthused to me about how some movies, for example, manage to capture attention and create a complete, immersive transformation for the viewer. In his
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Exploring the Space-Time Continuum…in the Mind
We often use words related to space to talk about time, describing the order of events in terms of “moving forward,” “looking back,” “thinking ahead,” and “lagging behind.” In fact, research suggests that people typically
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Increasing Personal Savings, the Groundhog Day Way
Thinking about time as a cycle of recurring experiences may help us to put more money away into our savings.
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Future Seems Closer than the Past
Inside Science: Sometimes the day seems to drag on and time can’t move fast enough. Other days, time seems to fly by and time gets away from us. In general, people experience time as moving
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Time in Perspective Andrei Gorea and Janice Hau Researchers know that the perceived size of an object increases as its perceived distance from an observer increases (Emmert’s
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Emotional Cues Alter Perceptions of Time and Number
Emotionally charged information dilates our perception of time and interferes with our numerical intuition, though it does so in different ways. Previous findings on how we process time and numbers have been mixed — some
