Report New Study Explains Why You Frequently Don’t Know Which Day Of The Week It Is

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Psychologists from the universities of Lincoln, York and Hertfordshire made a study which involves experiments that show how we perceive days of the week, how fast we can report which day of the week it is and what our mental representation of a day is.

The results show that our artificial seven-day cycle makes us give each day of the week its own character and that some are easier to recognize then others. One interesting finding here is that we have many more associations to Mondays and Fridays because these two occur much more frequently in natural language, for example there are many pop songs that use Monday and Friday, but very rarely do any songs use midweek days.

One experiment showed that people most frequently don’t know which day of the week it is during midweek days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. A very common occurrence is that a person thinks it is Wednesday when in fact it is Thursday. Almost 40% of the participants got the day wrong and stated it was the day before or the following day. When the participants were questioned during a Bank Holiday week their mistake went over 50% and people often had a feeling that they are a day behind.

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I never care when I am on vacation or elsewhere (then I go by the number, i.e. then 15th), but when I am at school/work I very clearly know which day of the week it is
 
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