Have you ever noticed how your perception of time can stretch or speed up depending on what's happening to you? Here's why.

New environments stretch time because of their unfamiliarity. Absorption contracts time because our attention becomes narrow, ...

Many of us experienced time differently in the pandemic. Learning why can help us, say Ruth Ogden and Patricia Kingori ...

Time perception varies depending on context, often slowing in emergencies or unfamiliar settings and speeding up during ...

However, these variations in time perception are quite mild. Our experience of time can change in a much more radical way. In my new book, I describe what I call “time expansion experiences”—in which ...