A watched pot sometimes boils: a study of duration experience☆
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Marjorie A. Reed University of Oregon.
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We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Lois Todd, who was an experimenter in experiments 2 and 3, and Robert Schartmann, who was an experimenter in experiment 3. We also thank Douglas Kenrick for suggesting the Rosenthal (1978) analysis.