MEANING MEDIATION OF SPACE-TIME CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EXTREME SITUATION

Abstract

The present research is an empirical and theoretical revision of the classical experiments of D. DeLong and D. Bobko on the nature of space-time relations in estimating the duration of time intervals. Experiments show how the meaning orientation has a specific effect on the experience of duration. An experimentally modeled situation that is perceived as extreme gives a shift in the estimation of the time duration. The interpretation of this shift could be revised from the point of view of transforming the meaning orientation of a person, expressed in the extent of the opportunities that open up to the subject in a life situation. This allows us to interpret the perception of duration as a dynamic formation. It is transformed in the process of changing the meaning structure of the human life world in extreme conditions. The interpretation of meaning mediation of an extreme situation (in its significance for human life), which determines the subjective estimation of the short time intervals duration, is proposed. The data develop the idea of cultural mediation of spatially temporal relations (M. Bakhtin, Ukhtomsky, S. Rubinstein, V. Zinchenko, Yu. Strelkov, N. Tolstykh, M. Magomed-Eminov, etc.), develop the theory of meaningful interpretation of the perception of time (P. Fraisse, B. Tsukanov), and place the accents in the assumptions about the slowing down of the intervals filled with unpleasant experiences and the acceleration of those filled with pleasant ones. The present study develops a spherical model of time and the concept of personality work of the individual with own temporal experience as the construction of temporal identity mediated by the cultural and historical experience of a unique living person (M. S. Magomed-Eminov).