Think about driving aroute that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into townor the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the backof your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to loseconcentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery.The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than itactually has。

　　This is thewell-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes totravel a familiar route。

　　The effect is caused bythe way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route,because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. Andafterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journeywell because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter。

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　　不妨想想在熟悉的道路上開車�？梢允窃谀闵舷掳嗟穆飞希�也可以是在進(jìn)城或回家的路上。不管是哪個(gè)，你對每一個(gè)拐彎都了如指掌。在這些熟悉的道路上開車，很容易失去注意力，也不會(huì)注意路邊的風(fēng)景。結(jié)果是，你覺得這次旅途花的時(shí)間比實(shí)際時(shí)間少。

　　這稱為“熟路效應(yīng)”：在熟悉的道路上開車時(shí)，人們往往會(huì)低估花費(fèi)的時(shí)間。

　　這種效應(yīng)是由我們分配注意力的方式所決定的。當(dāng)我們沿著熟悉的路線駕車，因?yàn)槲覀儾槐靥�集中注意力，所以我們�?huì)覺得時(shí)間過得更快。后來，當(dāng)我們回憶這個(gè)旅程時(shí)，我們卻不記得了，因?yàn)槲覀兏�本沒有注意它，所以我們認(rèn)為它花的時(shí)間短。