Book description
Winner of the 2013 British Psychological Society's Book Awards Popular Science category.
Time rules our lives, but how much do we really understand it?
In Time Warped, we meet the people willing to go to extreme lengths to find out. They travel to Costa Rica to find out if hummingbirds…
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This is an entertaining book about the psychology rather than the physics of time, written by an informed BBC journalist. There is a clear difference between clock time and mental time. Hammond recounts numerous experiments, which psychologists have undertaken to help understand what they call 'mind time'. It is an easy read, full of fascinating stories about how time is perceived in various circumstances and under different conditions. The whole book concentrates on how 'the mind creates sensations of time'; how age, fear and illness can all influence our psychological conception of time. The reader learns why time seems to…
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