Across four different experiments, researchers found that people\u2019s subjective sense of having time, called \u2018time affluence,\u2019 can be increased<\/strong>: compared with wasting time, spending time on oneself, and even gaining a windfall of \u2018free\u2019 time, spending time on others increased participants\u2019 feelings of time affluen<\/strong>ce.<\/p>\n Lead researcher and psychological scientist Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania believes this is because giving away time boosts one\u2019s sense of personal competence and efficiency, and this in turn stretches out time in our minds<\/strong>. Ultimately, giving time makes people more willing to commit to future engagements despite their busy schedules.<\/p>\n This new research, conducted by Mogilner and co-authors Zoe Chance of the Yale School of Management and Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, is forthcoming in\u00a0Psychological Science, <\/em>a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Many people these days feel a sense of \u201ctime famine\u201d\u2014never having enough minutes and hours to do everything. We all know that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[363,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Busy.jpg\" "\\"time\\"")
Many people these days feel a sense of \u201ctime famine<\/strong>\u201d\u2014never having enough minutes and hours to do everything. We all know that our objective amount of time can\u2019t be increased (there are only 24 hours in a day), but\u00a0a new study suggests that volunteering our limited time\u2014giving it away\u2014 may actually increase our sense of unhurried leisure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n