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

Chaumon, Maximilien; Rioux, Pier-Alexandre; Herbst, Sophie K; Spiousas, Ignacio; Kübel, Sebastian L.; Gallego Hiroyasu, Elisa M.; Runyun, Şerife Leman; Micillo, Luigi; Thanopoulos, Vassilis; Mendoza-Duran, Esteban; Wagelmans, Anna; Mudumba, Ramya; Tachmatzidou, Ourania; Cellini, Nicola; D’Argembeau, Arnaud; Giersch, Anne; Grondin, Simon; Gronfier, Claude; Igarzábal, Federico Alvarez; Klarsfeld, André; Jovanovic, Ljubica; Laje, Rodrigo; Lannelongue, Elisa; Mioni, Giovanna; Nicolaï, Cyril; Srinivasan, Narayanan; Sugiyama, Shogo; Wittmann, Marc; Yotsumoto, Yuko; Vatakis, Argiro; Balcı, Fuat; van Wassenhove, Virginie

Abstract

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.

Citation

Chaumon, M., Rioux, P.-A., Herbst, S. K., Spiousas, I., Kübel, S. L., Gallego Hiroyasu, E. M., …van Wassenhove, V. (2022). The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1587-1599. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01419-2

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 17, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 15, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Deposit Date: Sep 15, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 16, 2023
• Journal: Nature Human Behaviour
• Electronic ISSN: 2397-3374
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 1587-1599
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01419-2
• Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Social Psychology
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/10907036
• Publisher URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01419-2