A meta-analysis of flow effects and the perception of time.
Acta psychologica July 1, 2019 P A Hancock, A D Kaplan, J K Cruit et al. 40 citations
An altered sense of time is one of nine dimensions characterizing the flow state. A meta-analysis of 63 studies (1,094 effect sizes) found moderately positive correlations between affective aspects of flow and time perception (r = 0.4), consciousness aspects (r = 0.21), and performance-based aspects (r = 0.17), supporting the original conceptualization of their role in generating and maintaining flow. Variations in physical and social environmental conditions had differential effects on the overall level of experienced flow. The results inform further model development to quantify and predict temporal perception as a metric of flow.