Time production under time pressure
Résumé
Time pressure implies that available time is perceived to be insufficient to fulfill a task: we all know the complaint "I have no time!". Despite its ubiquity in our modern societies, in both professional and personal activities, few studies try to understand time pressure's implications and consequences. our research studies aim at filling this gap by exloring the effect of time pressure on time perception. A large fiel of the literature on psychological time postulates the existence of an internal clock mechanism at the basis of time perception. According to the prominent time-processing model, the internal clock has three components: a pacemaker-ike system that emits pulses, which transit through an attention-controlled switch and are accumulated in a counter. the accumulated units in the counter determne the interval duration. In our experimental study, participants have to solve a computerized maze by moving a small character with keyboard keys. Concurrently, they have to produce intervals of 30, 60 or 90 seconds by pressing a specific key of the keyboard. furthermore, they experience each interval in two conditions: with or without time pressure. Time pressure consists in a computer-controlled character solving the maze and trying to "eat" the player. results presentation wil focus on time production's accuracy and variability dependinf on whether participants were under time pressure condition or not. We consider that under tim pressure condition, temporal production will be longer than under no time pressure condition, thus reflecting an overestimation of their time judgments. We also suppose that time judgment's variability could be an expression of using different strategies depending on time pressure condition. Results will provide a better understanding of time pressure effects on time perception.