Abstract: Abstract How does emotion change the way we perceive time? Studies have shown that we overestimate the duration of faces that express anger of fear – an effect that has been explained as due the speeding of a pacemaker that resides within an internal clock. Here, we test the idea that attending longer to facial threat leads to an overestimation of time. Seventy participants (16 male) estimated the duration of angry, fearful and neutral expressions under conditions designed to either reduce attention to time (by emphasising speedy responses) o...
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