Subjective Passage of Time during the Pandemic
Routine, Boredom, and Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21750367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Wittmann (0000-0002-4483-7334, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 260-271 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KronoScope (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-715X • E-ISSN: 1568-5241 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685241-12341471 |
| OpenAlex | W3107347156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
Over the weeks of social isolation during the COVID -19 pandemic, people typically reported that time had passed comparably quickly. Although time might have passed slowly during moments of anxiety and boredom for some, many felt a speeding up of the passing days and weeks. Here I attempt to explain the experience of time during the pandemic with cognitive models of time perception as related to the present moment (prospective time) and in hindsight (retrospective time). Retrospective judgments of time intervals rely on memory traces. The more contextual changes experienced during a given time interval, the longer duration is judged when looking back over past time intervals. More routine activities, as experienced by many during the pandemic, even when under time pressure, lead to fewer memorable events stored in autobiographical memory. This creates the impression that time has passed considerably more quickly
Anxiety · Boredom · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Hindsight bias · Pandemic · Perception · Psychiatry · Time perception · Medicine · Mind wandering and attention · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |