You're having fun when time flies: The hedonic consequences of subjective time progression

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-117

  Sackett, Aaron M ^a   Meyvis, Tom ^b   Nelson, Leif D ^c   Converse, Benjamin A ^a   Sackett, Anna L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Hedonic evaluation; Judgment; Metacognition; Social cognition; Time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEARNING; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHILOSOPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MUSIC; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHILOSOPHY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75349088958     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797609354832     Document Type: Article

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