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The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of time

  • Written by Philip Gable, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of timeTime is fixed. Our grasp of it? Not so much.bestdesigns via Getty Images

Think back to life before stay-at-home orders. Does it feel like just yesterday? Or does it seem like ages ago – like some distant era?

Of course, time is precise. It takes 23.9 hours for the Earth to make one rotation on its axis. But that’s not how we experience...

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