{"id":1053,"date":"2017-02-08T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:13:32","slug":"why-we-underestimate-time-when-were-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/02\/08\/why-we-underestimate-time-when-were-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we underestimate time when we\u2019re on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"lead\">Updating your Facebook status can be a fun way to while away the hours \u2013 but now it seems it really is making us lose track of time as we do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New research from PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/gonidisl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazaros Gonidis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/sharmad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Dinkar Sharma<\/a> suggests that people who are using Facebook or surfing the web suffer impaired perception of time.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University\u2019s School of Psychology found that the way people perceived time varied according to whether their internet use was specifically Facebook related or more general.<\/p>\n<p>Using well-established internal clock models, researchers attempted to separate the roles of \u2018attention\u2019 and \u2018arousal\u2019 as drivers for time distortion. The researchers found that Facebook-related stimuli can lead to an underestimate of time compared to general internet use, but that both lead to a distortion of time.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/12453\/why-we-underestimate-time-when-were-on-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kent News Centre<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating your Facebook status can be a fun way to while away the hours \u2013 but now it seems it really is making us lose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/02\/08\/why-we-underestimate-time-when-were-on-facebook\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140630,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}