Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception. Claudia Hammond - Softcover

Claudia Hammond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847677908 ISBN 13: 9781847677907

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it?

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Why does life speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head sometimes move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand it? And is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it?

Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, the acclaimed writer and BBC broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Along the way, she introduces us to an extraordinary array of characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, including the French speleologist Michel Siffre, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness.

Time Warped offers insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy, and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.

About the Author

Claudia Hammond is a writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer. She is the voice of psychology on BBC Radio 4 and presents All in the Mind and Mind Changers as well as the landmark series on the social history of mental health in the UK, State of Mind. She is the author of one previous book, Emotional Rollercoaster, and is also a part-time member of faculty at Boston University in London. Hammond won the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement and Media Award in 2012, given for making an outstanding contribution to raising the profile of psychology with the general public, and Mind's Making a Difference Award in 2011, given to those who set the agenda and initiate change in the field of mental health. She also lectures in psychology for Boston University. Time Warped won the 2013 British Psychological Society's Book Awards Popular Science category. www.claudiahammond.com Follow the conversation on Twitter #TimeWarped

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847677908
• ISBN 13: 9781847677907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342