Global Pandemic: Our Perception of Time

The Fox News Rundown

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3.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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As social distancing policies stretch into their fourth and fifth months, our continuation of isolated routines may be impacting our perception of time. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Dr. Ruth Ogden, an Experimental Psychologist specializing in time perception at Liverpool John Moores University on how the restrictions of the pandemic have impacted our understanding of the passing of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Tuesday July 7th, 2020. I'm Trey Inks.
0:25.0	Billions of people around the world experience coronavirus lockdowns or restrictions this year.
0:32.0	Experts say the experience can change the way we
0:34.5	understand time. About 40% of people feel like time is passing much more
0:38.5	quicker than normal and about 40% of people feel like time is passing more slowly than normal.
0:43.4	So one of the things that we can say for sure is that people are experiencing profound
0:48.6	distortions to time during these periods of lockdown in which we have to stay at home.
0:53.4	We can't see our friends, we can't go to the shops, we can't go to work.
0:57.0	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
0:59.8	With a number of countries reapplying coronavirus restrictions, many people are once again
1:09.2	having to alter the way they live.
1:11.5	The experience of living through a pandemic has many people asking questions about how we as humans
1:16.6	perceive time.
1:18.1	Over the next few minutes, you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19 outbreak, and hear from Dr. Ruth Ogden, an experimental
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