Passage of time judgements

Abstract

The article discusses passage of time judgements (POTJs), judgements about how fast time seems to pass in some situation or during some event. It is argued that POTJs should be distinguished from duration judgements, and that the relation between the two remains to be identified. The article discusses (a) POTJs in laboratory situations and in the real world, (b) "feel judgements", the statement that a duration "feels longer" than a person knows it to be, (c) distortions of passage of time in emergency situations, (d) passage of time and ageing, and (e) determinants of POTJs, particularly the roles of information-processing/attention and arousal.

Keywords: Ageing; Arousal; Information-processing; Passage of time; Time.