JUDGMENTS OF TIME.
Every woman knows that color has an effect on the apparent size of objects; that of her dress on her figure.[2] It is not as well known that color affects our judgments of time. Our next experiment examines this matter.
In the diagram on the preceding page the white squares show plainly larger than the black squares.
REVOLVING CHAIR FOR STUDYING LOCALIZATIONS OF SOUNDS.
Upon a cylinder, slowly revolving by fine clockwork, strips of different colored cardboard are fastened, and observed through a hole in a screen. (See illustration on the preceding page.) The time of each rotation is measured precisely. By observation it is found that the period of rotation seems to vary with the colors on the cylinder. By combining colors differently through a long and tedious series of investigations on many people, it is being determined what part this sort of influence plays in mental processes. “When things look gay, time seems short.” Psychology seeks the laws of such happenings.