孤独感压缩社会背景下的时间知觉

Loneliness Compresses Time Perception during Social Contexts

孤独感是一种由于感知到社会关系不足而产生的负性体验。以往的研究报告,孤独感会改变特殊时期(新冠疫情)的时间感知。但是,孤独感是否影响正常时期的时间知觉还不清楚。在本研究中,我们使用了经典的时间二分任务(400~1600 ms),比较高孤独组和低孤独组在社会背景和非社会背景中的时间行为表现。我们的结果显示,高孤独组在社会背景中的主观相等点大于低孤独组的主观相等点,但是在非社会背景中两组的主观相等点相似。这些结果表明高孤独组压缩了社会背景下的时间,由于孤独个体对社会信息有更多的注意。我们的研究阐明了孤独感如何影响正常时期的时间感知。

Loneliness is a negative feeling arising from unfulfilled social relationships and unmet need to be-long. Previous studies have reported that loneliness alters time perception at a particular period (COVID-19 pandemic). However, how this effect reveals in the normal period is unclear. In the pre-sent study, we have compared the time behavior between higher (HL) and lower loneliness (LL) group, by using time bisection tasks (400~1600 ms) during social contexts and non-social contexts. Our results showed that during social contexts, the bisection point of HL group was larger than that of LL group, whereas during non-social contexts the bisection point of HL group was similar to that of LL group. These results suggest that HL increases attention toward social information, leading to temporal compression effect during social contexts. Our results have elucidated how loneliness af-fects time perception in the normal period.