The global coronavirus pandemic has heightened our awareness that time is subjective. For people who enjoy working from home, the days have whizzed by. For others desperate to travel or visit a loved one, time has slowed to a crawl https://tmsnrt.rs/2ZFY70r 

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Which duration felt longer?

Time estimation: You can make this judgment because you have remembered the first shape to compare. While this method works comparing very short durations, a different process is used for longer time periods. Here’s why: https://tmsnrt.rs/2ZFY70r 

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Compared with the circles, what was the duration of the nested squares?

The oddball effect: You watched a series of images that were shown for the same amount of time though the novel image is often thought to have lasted longer. Here’s why: https://tmsnrt.rs/2ZFY70r