How duration, difficulty, and boredom impact prospective and retrospective passage of time judgements and duration estimates.

Time perception research often involves asking people to estimate how long a task took to complete. Their estimate accuracy is then compared with the actual task's duration (an approach known as duration estimation). This method is commonly used for brief tasks and underpins several theories of psychological time. The present experiment aimed to explore additional ways of capturing the experience of time under varying conditions. An in-laboratory experiment was conducted in which 841 participants engaged in a visual and memory search task. Participants were assigned to either a prospective con