creators_name: Angrilli, Alessandro
creators_name: Cherubini, Paolo
creators_name: Pavese, Antonella
creators_name: Manfredini, Sara
type: journalp
datestamp: 1999-04-22
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:17
metadata_visibility: show
title: The influence of affective factors on time perception
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: neuro-physio
subjects: percep-cog-psy
subjects: physio-psy
subjects: psy-phys
full_text_status: public
keywords: emotions, time perception, International Affective Picture System, slides, arousal, valence, heart rate, skin conductance, duration estimation, interval reproduction, analog scale, attention.
abstract: Several studies have suggested that both affective valence and arousal affect the perception of time. How-ever, in previous experiments these two affective dimensions were not systematically controlled. In the present study, a set of emotional slides rated for valence and arousal (International Affective Picture System) were projected to two groups of subjects for 2, 4 and 6 sec. One group estimated the duration on an analog scale and a second group reproduced the interval by pushing a button. Heart rate and skin conductance responses were also recorded. A highly significant valence by arousal interaction affected duration judg-ments. For low arousal stimuli, the duration of negative slides was judged relatively shorter than the duration of positive slides. For high arousal stimuli, the duration of negative slides was judged longer than the dura-tion of positive slides. These results are interpreted within a model of action tendency, in which the level of arousal controls two different motivational mechanisms, one emotional and the other attentional.
date: 1997
date_type: published
publication: Perception and Psychophysics
volume: 59
number: 6
pagerange: 972-982
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Angrilli, Alessandro and Cherubini, Paolo and Pavese, Antonella and Manfredini, Sara  (1997) The influence of affective factors on time perception.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/803/3/timeperc.pdf