Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy.
Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2023 Nov;85(8):2626-2636. doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02767-5. Epub 2023 Aug 10.
Several investigations have shown that the processing of self-relevant information differs from processing objective information. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of social stimuli on subjective time processing. Here, social stimuli are images of an unknown male and female person and an image of participants' self. Forty university students were tested with a time reproduction task in which they were asked to reproduce the duration of the stimulus previously presented. Images of others or themselves were used to mark the temporal intervals. Participants also performed questionnaires to evaluate the level of anxiety and depression as well as self-consciousness. A generalised linear mixed-effects model approach was adopted. Results showed that male participants with higher Private Self-Consciousness scores showed higher time perception accuracy than females. Also, female participants reported higher scores for the Public Self-Consciousness subscale than male participants. The findings are discussed in terms of social context models of how attention is solicited and arousal is generated by social stimuli, highlighting the effect of social context on subjective perception of time.
几项研究表明，自我相关信息的处理不同于客观信息的处理。本研究旨在探讨社会刺激对主观时间处理的影响。这里，社会刺激是一个未知男性和女性的图像以及参与者自身的图像。四十名大学生参加了时间复制任务，要求他们复制先前呈现的刺激的持续时间。使用他人或自己的图像来标记时间间隔。参与者还完成了评估焦虑和抑郁水平以及自我意识的问卷。采用广义线性混合效应模型方法。结果表明，具有较高私人自我意识分数的男性参与者比女性参与者表现出更高的时间感知准确性。此外，女性参与者报告的公共自我意识子量表得分高于男性参与者。这些发现是根据社会情境模型讨论的，该模型说明了社会刺激如何引起注意力和唤起，突出了社会情境对主观时间感知的影响。
