The return trip effect: Why the return trip often seems to take less time

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 827-832

  van de Ven, Niels ^a   van Rijswijk, Leon ^c   Roy, Michael M ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Judgment and decision making; Return trip effect; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053117756     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0150-5     Document Type: Article

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