Exercise has long been touted for both its physical and mental health benefits, but recent research adds an intriguing twist to the understanding of its effects, indicating it can also alter the ...

You might feel like the days and weeks are slipping by. Here is how one psychologist says you can shift your experience of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new study published in Psychophysiology suggests that the length of our ...

There are some universal truths about time. There are sixty seconds in a minute. There are 365 days in a year (except for leap years that have 366, of course). There are 24 hours in every day. Try as ...

Our perception of time is peculiar. We do not have an organ that measures time as we have organs for sounds, smells, or images. There are no time hallucinations or time illusions in the way there are ...

For many people, 2023 went by in a blink ― doesn’t it feel like it was just January? But for others, especially children, last year’s holidays may seem like eons ago. There’s a reason why you may feel ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to establish that our perception of the passing of time can independently influence how a wound will heal. While preliminary, this novel study opens the ...

Studies find that people's perception of time really does warp during exercise, and the distraction of racing a rival does not fix this distorted perception. When you purchase through links on our ...

Scientists have found that our perception of time slows down noticeably when exercising, a fascinating finding that suggests we enter a perceived state of slow motion during physical exertion. “I was ...

Tempus Fugit a Sign on the former Dyson's jewellers, Briggate, Leeds Source: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Several years ago, during a discussion about possible studies ...