Linear representation of temporal location and Stevens’s law
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 1 (2) , 169-171
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03198089
Abstract
Ss were asked to indicate points 1 week, 7 months, 3 years, and 9 years in the past and future on two time lines representing birth to present and present to death. Data for 90 college-age Ss fit a psychophysical power function following Stevens's law. with negatively accelerated growth indicating proportionately greater linear representation of periods nearer to the present. Variability was greater for the representations of the future than of the past, with monotonic increases in variability as distance from the present increased.Keywords
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