摘要
People who try to quit smoking often feeledgr and have trouble staying. focused. Nowpsychologists have zeroed in on a likely biologi-cal explanation: Nicotine withdrawal affects thesmoker's sense of time. When researchers mea-sured time perception in nonsmokers and smok-ers, they found that both were fairly accurate intheir estimates of a 45-second period. However,when the smokers repeated the test after abstain-ing from cigarettes for 24 hours, their averageperception of the same time interval was abouttwice as long.
出处
《大学英语》
2003年第10期14-14,共1页
College English
