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Some Time Perspective-Time Perception Relationships

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This study represents an effort to relate two aspects of the psychological study of time previously treated as independent. 154 Ss judged the temporal length of a series of short 1000 cps signals. Time perception scores, the number of overestimations minus the number of accurate judgments and underestimations, were obtained over 26 trials. These measures were then correlated with the scores obtained on 5 scales of time perspective. The extension, density, directionality, coherence, and valence of future time were thus assessed. 3 of the 5 perspective scales correlated positively with overestimation of the time intervals, supporting the hypothesis that time perception overestimation would relate to future time perspectives.

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    Irving Zelkind & Bernard Spilka

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Zelkind, I., Spilka, B. Some Time Perspective-Time Perception Relationships. Psychol Rec 15, 417–421 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393608

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