Does Time Slow Down in a Car Crash? Danger, Time Perception and Speed Estimates

This paper introduces a new task to shed light on distortions of subjective time when driving in dangerous situations. Before describing the task, it is worth briefly to review some of the past work on time perception generally. and related to emotional or stressful events in particular.

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