The Psychology of Time Perception
John Wearden is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Keele University, UK. He has authored more than 120 articles and book chapters, mostly on time perception in humans and animals. How do people perceive time? This book presents a wealth of contempo
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The Psychology of Time Perception
John Wearden
The Psychology of Time Perception
John Wearden School of Psychology Keele University Keele, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-40882-2 ISBN 978-1-137-40883-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-40883-9
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Preface
The composer Gustav Mahler is supposed to have said “A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.” While this might be true of a Mahlerian symphony, it certainly is not true of this book on time perception. The volume you are reading does not contain everything that is known about time perception, or even everything that you might want to know. Its content is intended to provide the reader with an overview of some of the main trends in fairly recent work on the psychology of time, carried out over the last 30 or 40 years, although some historical issues are also discussed, as is a small amount of the philosophy of time. It is a personal selection of topics, albeit—I hope—a choice that is not too idiosyncratic. My aim is to provide the reader with an introduction to work in time perception which I believe to be interesting, important, and influential. An emphasis in the book, which reflects my own interests, is on ideas and theories underlying time perception research, rather than with just providing a summary of results, although a significant amount of experimental data is discussed, sometimes in considerable detail. The theories I mention have generally been simplified in the cause of
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