So instead of pop-physics, about what the hell time is, instead this is pop-psych, about things like how time seems to move more quickly when you are older because a year is only 1/60th of your life, and not 1/8th of your life, as it is when you are a kiddling. This is not 'Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time', but instead, 'Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception'. She also lectures in psychology for Boston University.The moral of my review is when Xmas shopping, and deciding to grab an interesting-looking book for yourself from the shelf, read the whole title. Hammond won the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement and Media Award in 2012, given for making an outstanding contribution to raising the profile of psychology with the general public, and Mind's Making a Difference Award in 2011, given to those who set the agenda and initiate change in the field of mental health. Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand about it? And is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, the acclaimed writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception. Have you ever tried to spend a day without looking at a clock or checking your watch? It's almost impossible. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summary Time Warped shows us how to manage our time more efficiently, speed time up and slow it down at will, plan for the future with more accuracy and, ultimately, use the warping of time to our own advantage.

We meet one group of volunteers who steer themselves towards the edge of a stairwell, blindfolded, and another who are strapped into a harness and dropped off the edge of tower block. Along the way, Claudia introduces us to an extraordinary array of characters willing to go to great lengths in the interests of research, such as the French speleologist Michel, who spends two months in an ice cave in complete darkness.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334) and index.

Time warped by claudia hammond