Distortion in time perception as a result of concern about appearing biased
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Journal ArticleDate
2017-08-08Author
Moskowitz, Gordon BOkten, Irmak Olcaysoy
Gooch, Cynthia M
Subject
AdolescentAfrican Americans
Analysis of Variance
Discrimination, Psychological
European Continental Ancestry Group
Facial Recognition
Female
Goals
Humans
Male
Motivation
Psychological Tests
Racism
Regression Analysis
Social Behavior
Time Perception
Young Adult
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10.1371/journal.pone.0182241Abstract
Two experiments illustrate that the perception of a given time duration slows when white participants observe faces of black men, but only if participants are concerned with appearing biased. In Experiment 1 the concern with the appearance of bias is measured as a chronic state using the external motivation to respond without prejudice scale (Plant & Devine, 1998). In Experiment 2 it is manipulated by varying the race of the experimenter (black versus white). Time perception is assessed via a temporal discrimination task commonly used in the literature. Models of time perception identify arousal as a factor that causes perceived time to slow, and we speculate that arousal arising in intergroup interactions can alter time perception.Citation to related work
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