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Preface
This is a very interesting question, that is also somewhat related to my area of research. I know of several related results (which I might add later in an edit), and I thought that with a few minutes of scholar search I'll find a paper dealing with this question exactly. I was surprised to find no such papers. So I decided to conduct an ...
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If someone is familiar with repeating a task, it becomes a habit. Routines within a habit take less brain power. With less conscious effort needed to do it, someone would most likely underestimate or gloss over what the task consists of.
This is just one possible interpretation; there might be other reasons as well.
The evolutionary advantage would be ...
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It seems that there is a research literature on the topic of the relationship between body temperature and time perception.
Weardon and Penon-Voak (1995) present a literature review of the topic which would be worth reading if this interests you. The following quotes their abstract:
Experiments investigating timing behaviour in humans under conditions
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