For many in recent months it dragged on unbearably slow.
During the isolation of due pandemic COVID-19 time in human perception began to leak slowly, and then accelerated again.
this is the conclusion reached by the team of psychologists from the University of Delaware in the United States. The results of the study announced in The Conversation.
Scientists have developed an app for smartphones, in which participants recorded their emotions and sense of time in March and April. The study involved a thousand people from different States.
In April, the number of people for whom time ran quickly, increased by 10%. They felt more calm and relaxed than before. This suggests that over time these people adapted to the mode of isolation, the researchers say.
Psychologists remind us that human perception of time is subjective and is closely related to emotion and motivation. What anxious we feel, the slower time flows for us, and Vice versa: if we experience happy emotions, a time for us “accelerated”.
Anna Lysenko
