Time crawls when you're not having fun: Feeling entitled makes dull tasks drag on

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1287-1296

  O'Brien, Edward H ^a   Anastasio, Phyllis A ^b   Bushman, Brad J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

decision making; emotion; entitlement; self focus; time perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOREDOM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; BOREDOM; DATA COLLECTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052283333     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211408922     Document Type: Article

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