Percepção de tempo e emoção: uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

The time perception is an essential ability for daily human activities, however, the way emotion can affect the time perception demand for more clarification. The purpose of this research was evaluate the main findings of papers publicated in the last 5 years through a systematic review. The systematic review uses the data from the PubMed and BVS databases. The descriptors "time perception" and "emotion" were applied and were limited to a search for articles published between January 2013 and December 2017. Of the 161 initial results, 30 were selected. The articles were analyzed contemplating size, sex and age of the subjects; experimental research method of verbal estimation, reproduction, production, discrimination/comparation and implicit task; visual, olfactory, auditory and painful emotional stimulis; discrete model and dimensional model of emotion; physiological measure; theoric model; and related cognitive processes. Corroborating with the Scalar Expectancy Theory, arousal and attention was the strong mechanisms of modulation of the perception of time, although other variables need to be considered. In search of greater ecological validity, implicit (retroactive) search methods have gained space.