title: Effect of task length on remembered and predicted duration.
abstract: Vierordt's (1868) law states that when estimating the duration of a previous task, people overestimate short durations and underestimate long ones. We examine whether this same pattern holds for remembered and predicted duration for tasks lasting between 1 and 15 min. In support of Vierordt's law and its extension to future duration estimates, task duration tended to be overestimated for short tasks (less than 2 min) and underestimated for long tasks for both remembered and predicted duration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania 17022, USA. roym@etown.edu
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Nicholas J S
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Christenfeld
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003469:Culture; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011601:Psychophysics; D013998:Time Perception