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Time Perception and Time Management during COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown
Time Perception and Time Management during COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Author(s): Elena A. Makarova, L. Elena Makarova, Iakoov S. Korovin
Subject(s): Educational Psychology
Published by: Удружење за развој науке, инжењерства и образовања
Keywords: time perception; defensive mechanism; rhythm of brain activity; internal clock;time management;

Summary/Abstract: Our perception of time changes with age, but it also depends on our emotional state and physical conditions. It is not necessarily mental disorders that distort human’s time perception, but threatening or dangerous situations, induced fear or sadness trigger psychological defensive mechanism that speeds up or slows down the rate of the internal clock. Fear distorted time is caused by higher (slower) pulse rate, increased (decreased) blood pressure and muscular contraction. The given research is aimed at improving our understanding of the mechanism that controls this sense, opening the way for new forms of time management. Our perception of time is dependent on our emotional state, temporal distortion caused by emotion is not the result of a malfunction in the internal biological clock, but, on the contrary, an illustration of its remarkable ability to adapt to events around us. Development of time sensitivity is very important for timing, time perception, time-management and procrastination problem solution.

  • Issue Year: 10/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 57-69
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English