The sense of time in the north: a Sámi perspective

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuccio Mazzullo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Finnish Lapland ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time

ABSTRACTThis paper refers to some aspects of the theoretical anthropological debate on the perception of time and I shall argue, following Ingold (2000) that amongst the Sámi people time is understood as an unfolding of interrelated tasks, rather than as a linear succession of standardised and arbitrary units. I also argue that the Sámi perception of time is not opposed to the western perception, but rather entails a different approach to the significance of clock time. The results of my fieldwork, conducted among the Sámi people in Finnish Lapland, lend support to the idea that the basis for a people's shared understanding and subjective experience of time lies in the interaction of skilful agents in carrying out diverse but interrelated tasks. It is not sufficient to live in a place, to belong to a particular ethnic group or to be engaged in the same subsistence activity to perceive time in a certain fashion. No matter how much we change the combination of actors, the perception of time is generated in each case through situated activity within the landscape.

Connotative Meaning of Time in Therapists' Conceptualization of Psychotherapeutic Interventions

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1211-1221
Author(s):  
Dawn S. O'Neil ◽  
Anthony F. Grasha
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Selection Of

This study examined the connotative meaning which beginner ( n = 15), intermediate ( n = 14), and advanced ( n = 15) therapists assigned to time in psychotherapy and their perception of time as a factor in designing therapeutic interventions. Therapists' conceptualization of the subjective experience of time as a component of psychotherapeutic interventions was assessed by examining their selection of metaphors for time, their semantic differential assessments of past, present, and future perspectives, and through their responses to a semistructured interview. Therapists at all three levels of experience appeared to view time for their clients as moving slowly, promoting growth, and allowing progress, with an emphasis on the importance of future time-based interventions for growth while the clients' past was viewed as reflective of distress. Responses appeared to be atheoretical and idiosyncratic, showing lack of clear integration of time with specific treatment interventions.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Droit-Volet ◽  
Natalia Martinelli ◽  
Johann Chevalère ◽  
Clément Belletier ◽  
Guillaume Dezecache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Depressive State ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Normal Perception ◽  
Over Time

The home confinement imposed on people to fight the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the flow of time by disrupting daily life, making them feel that time was passing slowly. The aim of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the evolution over time of this subjective experience of time and its significant predictors (boredom, decreased happiness, life rhythm, and sleep quality). Twso samples of French participants were followed up: the first for several weeks during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 1year later (April 2021; Study 1), and the second during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 6months (November 2020) and 1year later (April 2021; Study 2). Our study shows that the French participants have the feeling that time has passed slowly since the beginning of the first lockdown and that it has not resumed its normal course. This is explained by a persistent feeling of boredom characteristic of a depressive state that has taken hold in the population. The findings therefore suggest that the repeated contexts of confinement did not contribute to re-establishing a normal perception of time, to which a subjective acceleration of time would have testified.

scholarly journals Subjective experience of time in dementia with Lewy bodies during COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Torboli ◽  
Giovanna Mioni ◽  
Cinzia Bussé ◽  
Annachiara Cagnin ◽  
Antonino Vallesi
Keyword(s):  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Past Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Patients Experience

AbstractDementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms and has a more challenging clinical management and poorer prognosis compared to other forms of dementia. The experience of lockdown leads to negative psychological outcomes for fragile people such as elderly with dementia, particularly for DLB, causing a worsening of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Since an individual’s feeling of time passage is strongly related to their cognitive and emotional state, it is conceivable to expect alterations of this construct in people with DLB during such a difficult period. We therefore assessed the subjective experience of the passage of time for present and past time intervals (Subjective Time Questionnaire, STQ) during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID−19) in 22 patients with DLB (17 of which were re-tested in a post-lockdown period) and compared their experience with that of 14 caregivers with similar age. Patients showed a significantly slower perception of present and past time spent under lockdown restrictions. We argue that these alterations might be related to the distinctive features of DLB and their exacerbation recorded by the patients’ caregivers during the period of lockdown, though our results show that the patients’ experience of time passage in a post-lockdown period remained similarly slow. Overall, we show an impairment of the subjective perception of time passage in DLB tested during the COVID-19 lockdown.

scholarly journals Subjective experience of time in dementia with Lewy bodies during COVID-19 lockdown

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Torboli ◽  
Giovanna Mioni ◽  
Cinzia Bussé ◽  
Annachiara Cagnin ◽  
Antonino Vallesi
Keyword(s):  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Patients Experience

Abstract Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cognitive, behavioral and motor symptoms and has a more challenging clinical management and poorer prognosis respect to other forms of dementia. The experience of lockdown leads to negative psychological outcomes for fragile people such as elderly with dementia, particularly for DLB, causing a worsening of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. An individual’s feeling of time passage is strongly related to her cognitive and emotional state. We therefore assessed the subjective experience of the passage of time for present and past time intervals (Subjective Time Questionnaire, STQ) during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 23 patients with DLB (18 of which were re-tested in a post-lockdown period) and compared their experience with that of 21 caregivers with similar age and 46 younger university students. Patients showed a significantly slower perception of time and also reported feeling less time pressure. We argue that these alterations might be related to the distinctive features of DLB and their exacerbation recorded by the patients’ caregivers during the period of lockdown, though our results show that the patients’ experience of time passage in a post-lockdown period remained similarly slow. Overall, we show an impairment of the subjective perception of time passage in DLB tested during the COVID-19 lockdown.

scholarly journals Mnemonic content and hippocampal patterns shape judgments of time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynn E Sherman ◽  
Sarah DuBrow ◽  
Jonathan Winawer ◽  
Lila Davachi
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Pattern Change ◽  
Memory Integration ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Pattern Similarity ◽  
Left Hippocampus ◽  
Temporal Compression ◽  
Perception Of Time

Our experience of time can feel dilated or compressed, rather than reflecting true 'clock time.' Although many contextual factors influence the subjective perception of time, it is unclear how memory accessibility plays a role in constructing our experience of and memory for time. Here, we used a combination of behavioral and fMRI measures to ask the question of how memory is incorporated into temporal duration judgments. Behaviorally, we found that event boundaries, which have been shown to disrupt ongoing memory integration processes, result in the temporal compression of duration judgments. Additionally, using a multivoxel pattern similarity analysis of fMRI data, we found that greater temporal pattern change in the left hippocampus within individual trials was associated with longer duration judgments. Together, these data suggest that mnemonic processes play a role in constructing representations of time.

scholarly journals New dimensions of the perception and experience of time in conditions of the global risk society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Petkova
Keyword(s):  
Global Perspective ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Sense Of Time

This study aims to present new dimensions of the perception and experience of time in the conditions of the global risk society. The article attempts to answer the question of how the new global perspective changes the sense of time – its passage, flow, fulfillment, omission, passing, etc. It is analyzed how the clock time moves to the network flexible time of the global society. The main points in the article are: Conceptualization and historical dynamics of social time; The sense of time – Man and time – “measurability” and “limit” Man, society, space and time – the limit of eternity; From clock time to network flexible time – From the clock time to…, Flexible time, the changed attitude towards the future and the past.

Time and Temporality

2020 ◽  
pp. 458-480
Author(s):  
Benedict Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Temporal Course ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Poetic Metaphor ◽  
Century Thought

For the nineteenth century, music was commonly characterized as the “art of time,” and provided a particularly fertile medium for articulating concerns about the nature of time and the temporal experience of human life. This chapter examines some of the debates around music and time from the period, arranged thematically around a series of conceptual issues. These include the reasons proposed for the links between music and time, and the intimate connection between our subjective experience of time and music; the use of music as a poetic metaphor for the temporal course of history; its use by philosophers as an instrument for the explication of temporal conundrums; its alleged potential for overcoming time; its various forms of temporal signification across diverse genres; and the legacy of nineteenth-century thought on these topics today.

The causal involvement of the right supramarginal gyrus in the subjective experience of time: A hf-tRNS study

2021 ◽  
Vol 404 ◽  
pp. 113157
Author(s):  
Giulia Prete ◽  
Chiara Lucafò ◽  
Gianluca Malatesta ◽  
Luca Tommasi
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Supramarginal Gyrus ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Right

How do Past, Present and Future Weigh into Trajectories of Precarity? The Time Perspectives of Young Psychoactive Substance Users Living in Situations of Social Precarity in Montreal

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110516
Author(s):  
Vincent Wagner ◽  
Jorge Flores-Aranda ◽  
Ana Cecilia Villela Guilhon ◽  
Shane Knight ◽  
Karine Bertrand
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Psychoactive Substance ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Substance Users ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Occupational Integration ◽  
Experience Of Time

Young psychoactive substance users in social precarity are vulnerable to a range of health and social issues. Time perspective is one aspect to consider in supporting change. This study draws on the views expressed by young adults to portray their subjective experience of time, how this perception evolves and its implications for their substance use and socio-occupational integration trajectories. The sample includes 23 young psychoactive substance users ( M = 24.65 years old; 83% male) in social precarity frequenting a community-based harm reduction centre. Thematic analysis of the interviews reveals the past to be synonymous with disappointment and disillusionment, but also a constructive force. Participants expressed their present-day material and human needs as well as their need for recognition and a sense of control over their own destiny. Their limited ability to project into the future was also discussed. Avenues on how support to this population might be adapted are suggested.

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