Citation

Yarmey AD. Appl. Cogn. Psychol. 2000; 14(1): 45-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(200001)14:1<45::AID-ACP623>3.0.CO;2-U

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Retrospective duration estimations were investigated immediately after participation in everyday, naturalistic activities which ranged between 4 seconds and 80 minutes in length. Those events which remain invariant over time were more accurately estimated than events which are variable in length. Support was found for Vierordt's Law (1868); short events were overestimated and longer events were underestimated. Imagery-rehearsal had no significant effect on duration estimation. Age of participants was not related to duration estimations. Women gave reliably longer estimations than men, but no reliable differences were found for gender when estimations were based on events which were frequently experienced in familiar settings. Confidence-accuracy correlations were reliable for judgements of invariant events but not for variant events. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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