Perceiving time differences when you should not: Applying the El Greco fallacy to hypnotic time distortions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Martin, Jean Rémy ^a   Sackur, Jérôme ^b   Anlló, Hernan ^b,c   Naish, Peter ^d   Dienes, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Ctr Interdisciplinaire de Recherche   (France)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greco fallacy; Hypnosis; Suggestion; Time distortion; Time perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988311335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01309     Document Type: Article

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