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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Embodied Cognition

Background:

  • Emotional stimuli, including facial expressions, are known to influence time perception.
  • The role of bodily expressions, particularly those conveying distinct emotions, in modulating temporal judgments remains less explored.
  • Arousal is hypothesized to be a key mediator in the relationship between emotional stimuli and time perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how bodily expressions of fear, happiness, and sadness affect the perception of time.
  • To determine if the intensity of the time perception effect varies with different emotional expressions and stimulus durations.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a temporal bisection task.
  • Bodily expressions of fear, happiness, and sadness were presented as stimuli.
  • Stimulus duration ranges were varied across trials.

Main Results:

  • Time durations were perceived as significantly longer when viewing fearful bodily expressions compared to sad ones.
  • No significant difference in time perception was found between sad and happy bodily expressions.
  • The time-lengthening effect of fearful versus sad postures intensified with increasing duration ranges.

Conclusions:

  • Perceiving fearful bodily expressions increases arousal, which accelerates the internal clock and alters time representation.
  • Bodily expressions of emotion demonstrably influence temporal judgments.
  • Findings align with previous research on emotional stimuli (e.g., facial expressions) affecting time perception via arousal.