Droit-Volet Sylvie, Gil Sandrine
Laboratoire de Psychology Sociale et Cognitive, CNRS, UMR 6024, Université Blaise Pascal, 34 Avenue Carnot, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Jul 12;364(1525):1943-53. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0013.
The present manuscript discusses the time-emotion paradox in time psychology: although humans are able to accurately estimate time as if they possess a specific mechanism that allows them to measure time (i.e. an internal clock), their representations of time are easily distorted by the context. Indeed, our sense of time depends on intrinsic context, such as the emotional state, and on extrinsic context, such as the rhythm of others' activity. Existing studies on the relationships between emotion and time suggest that these contextual variations in subjective time do not result from the incorrect functioning of the internal clock but rather from the excellent ability of the internal clock to adapt to events in one's environment. Finally, the fact that we live and move in time and that everything, every act, takes more or less time has often been neglected. Thus, there is no unique, homogeneous time but instead multiple experiences of time. Our subjective temporal distortions directly reflect the way our brain and body adapt to these multiple time scales.
本手稿讨论了时间心理学中的时间-情感悖论：尽管人类能够准确估计时间，就好像他们拥有一种特定的机制来测量时间（即内部时钟），但他们对时间的表征很容易受到情境的扭曲。事实上，我们的时间感取决于内在情境，如情绪状态，以及外在情境，如他人活动的节奏。关于情感与时间关系的现有研究表明，主观时间的这些情境变化并非源于内部时钟的功能失调，而是源于内部时钟出色的适应个体环境中事件的能力。最后，我们在时间中生活和行动，以及每件事、每个行为都或多或少需要时间这一事实常常被忽视。因此，不存在单一、同质的时间，而是有多种时间体验。我们主观的时间扭曲直接反映了我们的大脑和身体适应这些多种时间尺度的方式。
