Trajectory Plus Time

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Why are humans so prone to running late? New findings published in Hippocampus suggest greater familiarity with an area leads us to overestimate its physical distance, but also has the opposite effect on our judgments of travel times through that space – that is, we underestimate how long it will take us to travel through highly familiar routes. Anthony and Jeff discuss this quirk of the human mind, and how to combat its effects.

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0:00.0	You're about to hear the end of a conversation
0:02.8	that Anthony and I are having.
0:04.3	Are you psychic?
0:05.6	It happens every episode of Anthony.
0:07.1	They always hear the end of a conversation
0:08.7	at the beginning of the episode.
0:10.0	Oh, okay, okay.
0:10.8	Yeah, so if you want to hear that entire conversation
0:13.2	because it's a real conversation that we have,
0:15.1	we give those to people who support our show.
0:18.0	All you got to do is go to patreon.com slash we have concerns
0:22.1	and find out how you can also get early episodes.
0:25.4	You can get hangouts with Anthony and me
0:28.3	and you can also get cool secret mail.
0:31.6	I had no idea we were recording those.
0:33.5	That is a total embarrassment to me.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:51.1	I'm excited about it.
0:52.2	I also am excited because it looks very different
0:54.4	in a way that speaks to me.
0:56.2	I have no idea how it looks,
0:57.3	but I'm excited about it.
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