The Temporal Doppler Effect: When the Future Feels Closer Than the Past

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 530-536

  Caruso, Eugene M ^a   van Boven, Leaf ^b   Chin, Mark ^c   Ward, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

distance perception; judgment; past and future; psychological distance; social cognition; tense; time; time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876175806     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612458804     Document Type: Article

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