Effects of Loss and Gain Experience on Subjective Time Perception

& (2018). Effects of Loss and Gain Experience on Subjective Time Perception. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 37(1), 105-125, https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2018.03.37.1.105

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Abstract

This study was to investigate the effects of psychological factors on the experience of subjective time, and to propose an explanation framework of subjective time based on the implications of the results. Two experiments were conducted with an operational concept of ‘time judgment ratio’(objective time/subjective time). In Experiment 1, participants judged subjective time in either a loss(negative emotion) or gain(positive emotion) situation. The results were that while the objective time was shorter than the subjective time in the loss situation(time judgment ratio < 1.0), the reverse was true in the gain situation(time judgment ratio > 1.0). In Experiment 2, the present time and a certain future time(1 month later) were manipulated as either a loss or a gain situation, and participants were asked to judge their subjective temporal distances to the future time. The results were as follows. When the present was positive and the future was negative, and when both the present and the future were positive, the future looked closer and came faster than the objective time. On the other hand, when the present was negative and the future was positive, and when both the present and the future were negative, the future looked farther and came slower than the objective time. One notable result was that the subjective temporal distance to a certain future was influenced by the positivity/negativity of the present more than by those of the future. An explanation framework of subjective time was proposed based on the operational concepts of ‘time of perseverance’ and ‘time of availability’.

keywords: 시간 지각, 주관적 시간, 객관적 시간, 시간 판단 비율, 가용의 시간, 감내의 시간, time perception, subjective time, time judgment ratio, time of availability, time of perseverance

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Effects of Loss and Gain Experience on Subjective Time Perception

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Korean Journal of Psychology: General