Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration

What makes a past time period feel longer or shorter? We find evidence for a metamemory contrast effect in which the relationship between the number of events remembered from a time period and the number of events that one expects to remember from that period interact to determine felt duration. Specifically, days in the distant past can come to feel longer than more recent days (Study 1), which we propose arises due to the difference between...