Time perception: effects of introversion/extraversion and task interest.
32 extraverted and 32 introverted college students rated the interest value and estimated the duration of 3-min. intervals filled with reading. There were 3 dull and 3 interesting readings. It was hypothesized that time perceptions of extraverts and introverts would differ when their interest in the task was dissimilar. But no personality differences in time perception and few in interest were found; both extraverts and introverts judged the intervals to be shorter when the reading was interesting.
D001288:Attention; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011931:Reactive Inhibition; D011932:Reading; D013998:Time Perception