The covid-19 pandemic, which has already infected almost 510 million people and killed 6.2 million worldwide, altered the way in which people perceive the passage of time, Brazilian academic sources reported this Wednesday.
so This is reflected in a study published in the journal Science Advances, which states that the social isolation measures that were adopted in much of the planet in 2020, during the first months of the pandemic, changed the perception of the passing of the hours.
The investigation, supported by the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP), indicated that that, at the end of May 2020, when the deadline was fulfilled. In the first month of distancing in many Brazilian states, 65% of the participants stated that they were distancing themselves. have the feeling that the hours passed more slowly.
This phenomenon, classified by the authors of the study as “ temporary expansion “, was associated with to “the feeling of loneliness” and “the lack of positive experiences” in that period.
On the other hand, for 75% it decreased. time pressure", which is when the hours seem to fly by.
"We accompanied the volunteers for five months to see if that photograph “The time of the start of the pandemic changed over time,” he said. in a note André Cravo, professor at the Federal University of ABC (Sao Paulo) and first author of the article.
The results indicated that the sensation of 'temporary expansion' decreased over the weeks, but there were no significant differences in relation to time pressure, according to Cravo.
To do this, they recruited 3,855 volunteers through social networks, who had to answer a They took a series of questionnaires about daily routines and fulfilled a task that consisted of estimating small intervals of time, pressing a button when they thought 30 or 60 seconds had passed.
The final results of the study were extracted from the data of 900 people who participated more frequently in the research.
"Over five Over the months we observed a similar pattern: in the weeks in which the individual felt more alone and experienced less positive affect, they also felt that time passed more slowly. Already in situations of high level of stress, I felt that time passed quickly”, he explained. Cravo.
According to the study, young people were the ones who most perceived that time was dilating at the start of the pandemic, months in which the measures they were more rigid.
Brazil is, along with the United States and India, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, with nearly 30.4 million infected and 663,111 deceased since the outbreak of the pandemic.
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