Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time
This article addresses the feeling of strangeness about the perception of time that many people with ordinary lifestyles experienced during the quarantine imposed to fight the presence of COVID-19. It describes different aspects of psychological time affected by the interruption of a normal routine...
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| description | This article addresses the feeling of strangeness about the perception of time that many people with ordinary lifestyles experienced during the quarantine imposed to fight the presence of COVID-19. It describes different aspects of psychological time affected by the interruption of a normal routine and suggests some cognitive mechanisms, attention, and memory that might have been at play, leading to perceive time as being more or less long. The article also describes the critical role of anxiety and temporal uncertainty and how they may affect the functioning of an internal clock and reminds the reader that there are individual differences in time-related aspects of the personality that contribute to the variety of impressions about duration experienced during the quarantine. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15a40d93c42244f49f02c4afb08ad34c2022-12-21T21:46:59ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-10-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.581036581036Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological TimeSimon GrondinEsteban Mendoza-DuranPier-Alexandre RiouxThis article addresses the feeling of strangeness about the perception of time that many people with ordinary lifestyles experienced during the quarantine imposed to fight the presence of COVID-19. It describes different aspects of psychological time affected by the interruption of a normal routine and suggests some cognitive mechanisms, attention, and memory that might have been at play, leading to perceive time as being more or less long. The article also describes the critical role of anxiety and temporal uncertainty and how they may affect the functioning of an internal clock and reminds the reader that there are individual differences in time-related aspects of the personality that contribute to the variety of impressions about duration experienced during the quarantine.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581036/fullquarantineperception of timepandemic (COVID-19)psychological timetime judgments |
| spellingShingle | Simon Grondin Esteban Mendoza-Duran Pier-Alexandre Rioux Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time Frontiers in Psychology quarantine perception of time pandemic (COVID-19) psychological time time judgments |
| title | Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time |
| title_full | Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time |
| title_fullStr | Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time |
| title_short | Pandemic, Quarantine, and Psychological Time |
| title_sort | pandemic quarantine and psychological time |
| topic | quarantine perception of time pandemic (COVID-19) psychological time time judgments |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581036/full |
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