The future is nonlinear

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There have been some excellent articles recently on the psychology of time but one of the most fascinating is from Developing Intelligence who looks at a new study that suggests our concept of time becomes nonlinear as we look into the future - in other words, not all futures are equal.

The research, led by psychologist Gal Zauberman, riffs on an effect called ’hyperbolic discounting’, where immediate rewards seem more valuable than rewards in the future.

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I also really recommend another recent DevIntell post on time perception, discussing how cognitive science theories are attempting to explain how we can perceive something that doesn’t have any ’sensation’ attached to it.

Any if you’re still hungry for more time, science writer Carl Zimmer has an article in Discover Magazine about how the brain keeps track of time.

Link to DevIntell on distortions in future time perception.
pdf of full-text of study.
Link to DevIntell on time perception and time ’sensation’.
Link to Carl Zimmer’s article on neuroscience of time.