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You're having fun when time flies

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Times flies when you are having fun, but you can also have fun by being fooled into thinking time has flown, new research has found.

Aaron Sackett, assistant professor of marketing at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota, explains how people can be tricked into thinking more or less time has passed than they really thought.

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