{"id":9363,"date":"2019-08-23T20:16:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:01:08","slug":"assistant-professor-of-psychology-ben-denkinger-on-why-time-speeds-up-as-we-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/23\/assistant-professor-of-psychology-ben-denkinger-on-why-time-speeds-up-as-we-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor of Psychology Ben Denkinger on why time speeds up as we age"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9365\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-29-at-2.41.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-29-at-2.41.43-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Ben Denkinger speaking with WCCO\u2019s Heather Brown in an office \" width=\"288\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-29-at-2.41.43-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-29-at-2.41.43-PM-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-29-at-2.41.43-PM.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Denkinger speaks with WCCO&#8217;s Heather Brown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Assistant Professor of Psychology Ben Denkinger spoke with <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">WCCO&#8217;s Heather Brown\u00a0<\/span>about why time seems to speed up as we age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, there\u2019s the theory of ratios \u2013 that one year to a four-year-old is a much larger percentage of their life compared to one year in the life of a 40-year-old&#8221;, Denkinger explained. \u201cIt really boils down to us being a lot busier with a lot more routine tasks as we get older. The more you\u2019re paying attention to other stuff, not paying attention to the passage of time, time slips away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can we slow time down? According to Denkinger, you can.\u00a0\u201cUnfortunately, the way to slow time down is awful. It\u2019s by making yourself as bored as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Denkinger also runs the\u00a0Aging Lab at Augsburg University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2019\/08\/22\/why-does-time-seem-to-speed-up-as-we-get-older\/\">Watch full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Psychology Ben Denkinger spoke with WCCO&#8217;s Heather Brown\u00a0about why time seems to speed up as we age. &#8220;First, there\u2019s the theory of ratios \u2013 that one year to a four-year-old is a much larger percentage of their life compared to one year in the life of a 40-year-old&#8221;, Denkinger explained. \u201cIt really &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}