Negative emotions really do make events seem to last longer


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Being in an emotionally unfavorable state may have an effect on how somebody judges the time between two previous occasions

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We’ve got all felt time drag throughout difficult intervals, however there was little scientific understanding of how our emotional states affect our notion of time till just lately. Now, it appears there actually is a hyperlink.

Jingyi Wang and Regina Lapate on the College of California, Santa Barbara, investigated whether or not emotional fluctuations form folks’s reminiscences of the timing of occasions.

Eighty folks checked out photos that both usually induce a unfavorable emotion, such …