“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world.

Time perception refers to duration judgment. Research shows that subjective time does not necessarily align with objective time. For example, when waiting for an elevator, two minutes can seem to take ...

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