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Time perception

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You misremember when events in your life actually happened.
The telescoping effect causes people to shift distant events forward in time and recent events further back.…
Time perception changes as you get older.
Research indicates that your sense of how fast time passes is linked to how much new information you encode; as encodi…
You perceive time differently depending on what you see.
A 2011 study found that viewing 'high-arousal' images causes you to overestimate the duration of time that has passed.…
You are systematically wrong about your own schedule.
The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate the time needed to complete a future task.…