| Abstract: | Three experiments investigated time-order error (TOE) in comparative judgments of duration. 13 Ss were presented sequentially 2 light flashes of either long (900–2,200 msec) or short (70–260 msec) duration and instructed to judge which flash was longer. Overall results show that for both sets of durations, TOE became increasingly negative as the duration in a pair increased and that the errors were more positive for a set of short durations than for a set of long durations. It is argued that these data are compatible with a model for duration judgments which places the source of the error in the decision process. It is suggested that the data described by D. G. Jamieson and W. M. Petrusic (see PA, Vol 54:169; Vol 55:3601) are not inconsistent with this view. (French summary) (23 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
