If you re confused about the passage of time, you’re not alone. We know that each hour is divided into 60 equal minutes, and each minute into 60 identical seconds; but why do some hours feel longer than others? And is the pandemic changing our perception of time?
Dr. Ruth Ogden aims to answer these questions in her research, she tells Ray D’Arcy. She also has a few practical tips on making the passage of time more bearable in lockdown.
Dr. Ogden is an Associate Professor specialising in Experimental Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research covers the UK and Argentina during the pandemic and it’s already yielded some incredible results about how people’s perception of time has altered during the past year or so: