ArticleCognitive processing2020
Time flies faster when you're feeling blue: sad mood induction accelerates the perception of time in a temporal judgment task.
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- Emotional states affect the degree of duration distortion more than distortion direction: a meta-analytic research.Psychological research · 2025Pooled it
- Emotional impact of using different sensory modalities for autobiographical activation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The role of valence, arousal, stimulus type, and temporal paradigm in the effect of emotion on time perception: A meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- The effect of aging and emotions on time processing.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
- Dynamic and static angry faces influence time perception differently-Evidence from ERPs.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- How Does Emotion Influence Time Perception? A Review of Evidence Linking Emotional Motivation and Time Processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Using adaptive psychophysics to identify the neural network reset time in subsecond interval timing.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Development of Young Children's Time Perception: Effect of Age and Emotional Localization.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Investigating the interaction of mood and time perception has provided key information in the mechanisms that underlie cognition and emotion. However, much of the literature that has investigated the role of emotions in time perception has focused on the valence of stimuli, or correlational studies of self-reported mood. In the present study, 31 healthy undergraduates completed a temporal judgment task before and after an autobiographical sad mood induction procedure. In the temporal judgment task, participants identified whether a presented neutral stimulus was onscreen for the same duration as a target (2 s). Along with target trials, very short (1.25 s), short (1.6 s), long (2.25 s), and very long (3.125 s) trials were presented in random order and in equal proportion. Following mood induction, ratings of sadness and fear increased, but returned to baseline at the end of the study. After the mood induction, participants significantly increased temporal overestimation as participants were more likely to affirm short than long-duration trials as matching the target. These results indicate that transient changes in mood in otherwise healthy adults can accelerate the subjective experience of time. Sadness may increase physiological components of time perception that are related approach motivation.
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