The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19.

[en] The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns triggered worldwide changes in the daily routines of human experience. The Blursday database provides repeated measures of subjective time and related processes from participants in nine countries tested on 14 questionnaires and 15 behavioural tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2,840 participants completed at least one task, and 439 participants completed all tasks in the first session. The database and all data collection tools are accessible to researchers for studying the effects of social isolation on temporal information processing, time perspective, decision-making, sleep, metacognition, attention, memory, self-perception and mindfulness. Blursday includes quantitative statistics such as sleep patterns, personality traits, psychological well-being and lockdown indices. The database provides quantitative insights on the effects of lockdown (stringency and mobility) and subjective confinement on time perception (duration, passage of time and temporal distances). Perceived isolation affects time perception, and we report an inter-individual central tendency effect in retrospective duration estimation.

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Theoretical & cognitive psychology

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Chaumon, Maximilien ; Institut du Cerveau, ICM, Inserm U 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, Centre MEG-EEG, Centre de NeuroImagerie Recherche (CENIR), Paris, France. maximilien.chaumon@gmail.com

Rioux, Pier-Alexandre ; École de psychologie, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Herbst, Sophie K; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin, Gif/Yvette, France

Spiousas, Ignacio ; Department of Science and Technology, University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kübel, Sebastian L ; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany ; Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany

Gallego Hiroyasu, Elisa M ; Department of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Runyun, Şerife Leman ; Department of Psychology and Center for Translational Medicine, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Micillo, Luigi ; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Thanopoulos, Vassilis ; Multisensory and Temporal Processing Laboratory (MultiTimeLab), Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece ; Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Mendoza-Duran, Esteban ; École de psychologie, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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English

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The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19.

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2022

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Nature Human Behaviour

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2397-3374

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Nature Research, England

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1587-1599

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01419-2.pdf

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We thank the many participants who took part in the study, mostly without compensation and by sheer interest in citizen science. We thank B. Martins (CEA, NeuroSpin) for her continuous support on the ethical aspects of the protocol (CER-Paris-Saclay-2020-020) and M. Hevin (CEA, NeuroSpin) for her administrative help. We thank numerous communication channels that have relayed and advertised the study: C. Doublé (CEA, NeuroSpin), L. Belot (Le Monde) and C. Chevallier (Le Parisien). We thank D. Buonomano, S. Droit-Volet, S. Kotz, N. Martinelli, R. Ogden, D. Poole, D. Rhodes and H. van Rijn for their initial interest and support in building momentum for this international project. We thank Brill Publishing for sponsoring participation tokens in Gorilla. C.G. was funded by grants from the French National Research Agency (Idex Breakthrough ALAN, no. ANR-16-IDEX-0005) and the Région Auvergne Rhône Alpes (Pack Ambition Recherche, Light Health). F.B. and S.G. were funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. G.M. and N.C. were supported by the research programme ‘Dipartimenti di Eccellenza’ from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua. L.J. was supported by grant no. ANR-16-CE37-0004. M.C. works in a core facility that receives funding from the programme ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (grant nos ANR-10-IAIHU-06 and ANR-11-INBS-006). V.v.W. was funded by CEA and grant no. ANR-18-CE22-0016. A.W. was funded by the doctoral school ED3C ‘Cerveau, Cognition, Comportement’. Y.Y. was funded by JSPS KAKENHI no. 19H05308, UTokyo CiSHuB. The authors received no specific funding for this work.

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