Did Time Tick Slower for a Woman Who Spent 500 Days Alone in a Cave?
Here’s why a woman who spent 500 days in extreme isolation lost her sense of time
Ruth Ogden is a Reader in Experimental Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Her research explores all aspects of how people experience the passage of time. Ogden is particularly interested in understanding why time passes more quickly during some activities and more slowly during others, and how significant changes in life affect temporality.
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