An experimental study of the perception of filled and empty time.

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The purpose of this investigation was to determine the general, individual and sex differences in the estimation of intervals of time ranging from thirty seconds to ten minutes, under the following conditions. First, empty time; the subjects sat quietly, doing nothing. Second, time filled; the subjects were occupied in various ways, copying nonsense syllables, uninteresting sense material, an interesting incident from 'Huckleberry Finn,' and, finally, listening to the reading of another anecdote from the same story. The 'dry material' was from the catalogue of the Engineering School of Washington University. The portions selected were descriptions of the laboratory equipment, and since the subjects were not engineering students, this material was thought to be reasonable 'dry,' especially when compared with two of the most amusing pages of Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' which served as the 'interesting' material for both the copying and listening to what was read. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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