Wenjie Liu

COVID-19 and temporal perception: prolonged short-term time perception in a post-pandemic world

Figshare July 17, 2026 Wenjie Liu, Tian Yuan, Li Wang et al. preprint

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly restructured daily life, significantly impacting mental health. This negative event has been reported to alter subjective experience of time, such as the blending of days, reflecting distortions in long-term time perception over relatively coarse scales. However, the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on short-term time perception over fine scales has...