Express Belgium: Aangename activiteiten doen de tijd sneller te lijken gaan, maar vooral de uiteindelijke doelstelling heeft daarin een cruciale functie. Dat is de conclusie van een onderzoek van wetenschappers aan de University of Alabama. De perceptie over het tijdsverloop wordt volgens de Amerikaanse onderzoekers bepaald door de wens om More
Examiner: Scientists Philip Gable and Bryan Pool of the University of Alabama recently decided to investigate the old saying “time flies when you are having fun”. Although they suspected there was some truth to the concept, they hypothesized that this only held true when you were engaged in ‘approach motivation’ More
Though the seconds may tick by on the clock at a regular pace, our experience of the ‘fourth dimension’ is anything but uniform. When we’re waiting in line or sitting in a boring meeting, time seems to slow down to a trickle. And when we get caught up in something More
The Atlantic: Here’s a question addressed straight to the soul (and the hippocampus): what are your most memorable moments of awe? If you’re like me, those moments are a bit difficult to specify and describe. If I really put my mind to it, images of a particularly fantastic (and almost More
Daily Mail: If you’re always feeling there aren’t enough hours in the day, the answer could be to do a favour for someone else, say scientists. Despite the fact it involves giving up some of that precious time, devoting a few hours or even just minutes to others can make More
The Huffington Post: We don’t have enough time to do this, we don’t have enough time to do that. But a new study suggests that when we give our time away, it helps us feel like we have more time. Researchers from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania More
