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Why a canceled meeting feels so liberating
- March 24, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Unless your employer is Lumon Industries, where the "Severance" workday never ends, a canceled meeting can feel like a gift of limitless time. A Rutgers University study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research explains why: Unexpectedly gaining time alters our perception of how that time passes, which in turn affects how we spend it.
Originally published at Phys.org