Verónica Cervigón-Carrasco, Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Joël Billieux, Beatriz Gil-Juliá, Cristina Giménez-García, Jesús Castro-Calvo
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Time perception is a cognitive process involving both the ability to estimate the duration of an event (time estimation, TE) and the subjective perception of its passage (time passage, TP). Studies show that alteration in TE/TP is associated with substance use disorders. However, little is known about the impact of these alterations in potentially problematic online behaviors. We explore TE and TP while participants were exposed to cues related to videogames, pornography, and TV series, and the relationship of TE and TP with scores from instruments that measure problematic gaming (PG), problematic pornography use (PPU), and problematic binge-watching (BW)...
December 4, 2023: Journal of Behavioral Addictions