Biomedical subjects

R Troutwine

Publications and source records attributed to R Troutwine.

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PubMed1984

Perceived task quality and estimated interval: foundation for temporal attributions.

48 subjects listened to both a boring and an interesting tape. After listening, subjects rated each tape and estimated the duration of each--the order of the evaluation was manipulated. Choice was also varied regarding task involvement by assigning subjects to either with or without volition group. Altered temporal judgments did not independently reduce dissonance. A distinctive relationship between the subjective duration of the task and its perceived quality also affected subjects' attributions regarding a task.

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PubMed1981

Volition, performance of a boring task and time estimation.

Subjective intervals were obtained from 40 subjects (20 males, 20 females) who were assigned to a group with or without volition in which choice regarding task involvement was varied. Orthogonal to volition, half the subjects engaged in a boring task, half in an interesting task. Subjects assigned to the group with no volition displayed typical temporal behavior (an interesting task was judged as significantly shorter), while subjects in the group with volition showed no difference in protensity as a function of task quality, yielding the predicted interaction.

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