Niels van de Ven - The Return Trip Effect: Why the Return-Trip Often

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Niels van de Ven, Michael M. Roy, Leon van Rijswijk
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 18, 2011, pp. 827-832

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van de Ven, N., Roy, M. M., & van Rijswijk, L. (2011). The Return Trip Effect: Why the Return-Trip Often Seems to Take Less Time. Psychonomic Bulletin &Amp; Review, 18, 827–832. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-011-0150-5

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Ven, Niels van de, Michael M. Roy, and Leon van Rijswijk. “The Return Trip Effect: Why the Return-Trip Often Seems to Take Less Time.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 18 (2011): 827–832.

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van de Ven, Niels, et al. “The Return Trip Effect: Why the Return-Trip Often Seems to Take Less Time.” Psychonomic Bulletin &Amp; Review, vol. 18, 2011, pp. 827–32, doi:10.3758/s13423-011-0150-5.

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@article{niels2011a,
  title = {The Return Trip Effect: Why the Return-Trip Often Seems to Take Less Time},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Psychonomic Bulletin & Review},
  pages = {827-832},
  volume = {18},
  doi = {10.3758/s13423-011-0150-5},
  author = {van de Ven, Niels and Roy, Michael M. and van Rijswijk, Leon}
}

[a lay theory is that people feel that the trip back home typically feels shorter than the outgoing trip had been. we verify that people indeed have this feeling. studies included participants taking a bus ride to the housekeeping fair, students taking a bike ride, and an experiment in which participants watched someone ride their bike to a place and back. we explore the possible reasons for this return-trip effect as well. It does not seem to be the case that people recognize more things on the way back, but rather the expectancies one has on how long the trip will take seem of importance]