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Age Change in Time Perception in Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Anglo-Americans

University of California, Los Angeles

Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Anglo-Americans estimated equal intervals of idle time and time spent working at meaningful tasks. Younger Anglo-Americans and all older groups perceived idle time as longer. Younger minority culture groups perceived no difference in the two times. These findings suggest a perception of idle time as wasted and thus appearing long as contrasted with the perception of time spent achieving. It is proposed that cultural differences in the strength of the tendency to view achievement as occurring in sequences of time. The temporal problems of minority cultures in majority cultures schools are related to this aspect of time.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 117-122 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/002202217671010


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