Effect of task length on remembered and predicted duration

Vierordt’s (1868) law states that when estimating the duration of a previous task, people overestimate short durations and underestimate long ones. We examine whether this same pattern holds for remembered and predicted duration for tasks lasting between 1 and 15 min. In support of Vierordt’s law an...

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Published inPsychonomic bulletin & review Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 202 - 207
Main Authors Roy, Michael M., Christenfeld, Nicholas J. S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer-Verlag 01.02.2008
Psychonomic Society
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Attention
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
Cognitive Psychology
Culture
Discrimination Learning
Experiments
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Memory
Mental Recall
Perceptual Distortion
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychophysics
Time Perception
Memory Condition
Prediction Condition
Task Completion Time
Proportional Error
Task Duration
Human
Cognition
Duration
Experimental study
Memory
Time perception
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Summary:Vierordt’s (1868) law states that when estimating the duration of a previous task, people overestimate short durations and underestimate long ones. We examine whether this same pattern holds for remembered and predicted duration for tasks lasting between 1 and 15 min. In support of Vierordt’s law and its extension to future duration estimates, task duration tended to be overestimated for short tasks (less than 2 min) and underestimated for long tasks for both remembered and predicted duration.
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ISSN:1069-9384
1531-5320
DOI:10.3758/PBR.15.1.202