An experiment is reported which examined the effects of illumination,
sex, and the duration of target intervals on the perception of time.
Six male and six female participants made repeated estimates of one,
three, seven, and twenty seconds each, using the production technique.
There were sixty trials per duration, half of which were performed
with the lights on and half with the lights off. Order of administration
of lighting condition and duration of target time was randomized.
For estimates expressed as ratios of target times, results indicated
significant main effects for participant sex and duration of target
time on mean time estimates. However, manipulation of lighting condition
did not produce a significant main effect. For the variability of
response, there was a significant interaction between sex and light
condition such that women were less variable in lighted conditions.
These findings are discussed in terms of previous equivocal evidence
for the influence of participant sex on time perception and the modification
of such an influence through change in experimental conditions.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Hancock1994
%A Hancock, PA
%A Arthur, EJ
%A Chrysler, ST
%A Lee, J
%D 1994
%J Acta psychologica
%K timing
%N 1
%P 57--67
%T The effects of sex, target duration, and illumination on the production
of time intervals.
%U http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8053360
%V 86
%X An experiment is reported which examined the effects of illumination,
sex, and the duration of target intervals on the perception of time.
Six male and six female participants made repeated estimates of one,
three, seven, and twenty seconds each, using the production technique.
There were sixty trials per duration, half of which were performed
with the lights on and half with the lights off. Order of administration
of lighting condition and duration of target time was randomized.
For estimates expressed as ratios of target times, results indicated
significant main effects for participant sex and duration of target
time on mean time estimates. However, manipulation of lighting condition
did not produce a significant main effect. For the variability of
response, there was a significant interaction between sex and light
condition such that women were less variable in lighted conditions.
These findings are discussed in terms of previous equivocal evidence
for the influence of participant sex on time perception and the modification
of such an influence through change in experimental conditions.
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sex, and the duration of target intervals on the perception of time.
Six male and six female participants made repeated estimates of one,
three, seven, and twenty seconds each, using the production technique.
There were sixty trials per duration, half of which were performed
with the lights on and half with the lights off. Order of administration
of lighting condition and duration of target time was randomized.
For estimates expressed as ratios of target times, results indicated
significant main effects for participant sex and duration of target
time on mean time estimates. However, manipulation of lighting condition
did not produce a significant main effect. For the variability of
response, there was a significant interaction between sex and light
condition such that women were less variable in lighted conditions.
These findings are discussed in terms of previous equivocal evidence
for the influence of participant sex on time perception and the modification
of such an influence through change in experimental conditions.},
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