Anna Eisler
PhD, Associate Professor
Main research interests
The general domain of interest is in perception, psychophysics, cognition, neuropsychology, social-, and cross-cultural psychology. A main research theme is time perception, focused on phylogenetic and ontogenetic approaches. More specifically are studied cognitive and biological factors in time perception, time perception in children, influence of age, gender, personality and culture on time perception, time perception in schizophrenics and in individuals with neurological impairment. Cross-cultural studies involve risk perception, human ecology, the perception of vulnerability, suicide and suicidal behavior. The psychological methods are supplemented by methods of social anthropology. Generally, much of the research and theory building is psychophysical, cognitive, and culture-specific.
Selected publications
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1991). A mathematical model for time perception with experimentally obtained subjective time scales for humans and rats. Chronobiologia, 18, 79-88.
Eisler, A. D. (1992). Time perception: Reproduction of duration by two cultural groups. In S. Iwawaki, Y. Kashima, & K. Leung (Eds.), Innovations in cross-cultural psychology (pp. 304-310). Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.
Eisler, A. D. (1992). Time perception: Some reflections on biological and psychological time. In J. Kotaskova (Ed.), Psychological development and personality formative processes (pp. 55-71). Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Prague.
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1992). Time perception: Effects of sex and sound intensity on subjective duration. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 33, 339-358.
Eisler, A. D. (1993). Time perception: Theoretical considerations and empirical studies of the influence of gender, age, and culture on subjective duration. Stockholm: Akademitryck AB. (Doctoral Dissertation).
Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (1994). Subjective time scaling: Influence of age, gender, and Type A and Type B behavior. Chronobiologia, 21, 185-200.
Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D. & Camara, G. (1994). The effect of the interstimulus interval on duration reproductions. In L. M. Ward (Ed.), Fechner Day ´94 (pp. 30-35). Vancouver, Canada: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, A. D. (1995). Cross-cultural differences in time perception: Comparison of African immigrants and native Swedes. In G. Neely (Ed.), Perception and psychophysics in theory and application (pp. 137-145). Stockholm: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., Guirao, M., & Harris. P. (1995). Time perception in children. In C.-A. Possamai (Ed.), Fechner Day ´95 (pp. 179-184). Cassis: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Gregson, R. A. M. (1995). A cusp in the subjective width of rectangles. In G. Neely (Ed.), Perception and psychophysics in theory and application (pp. 147-153). Stockholm: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Montgomery, H. (1996). Prospective and retrospective time perception: Cognitive and biological approaches. In S. Masin (Ed.), Fechner Day ´96 (pp. 251-256). Padua: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (1996). On the origin of breaks in psychophysical functions. In S. Masin (Ed.), Fechner Day ´96 (pp. 69-74). Padua: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Montgomery, H. (1997). Speed of time and unpleasantness of sound in known and unknown durations. In A. Preis & T. Hornowski (Eds.), Fechner Day ´97 (pp. 143-148). Poznan: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Derwinger, A. (1997). Time perception in extravert and introvert personalities. In M. Guirao (Ed.), Procesos sensoriales y cognitivos [Sensory and cognitive processes] (pp. 371-387). Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dunken.
Eisler, A. D. (1998). La percepción del tiempo no es igual para todos. El Litoral: Ciencia y Tecnica, p. 2.
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D., & Montgomery, H. (1998). Speed of time and the psychophysical function for subjective duration. In S. Grondin & Y. Lacouture (Eds.), Fechner Day ´98 (pp. 83-88). Québec, Canada: International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, A. D., Wester, M., Yoshida, M., & Bianchi, G. (1999). Attitudes, beliefs and opinions about suicide: A cross-cultural comparison of Sweden, Japan and Slovakia. In J.-C. Lasry, J. G. Adair, & K. L. Dion (Eds.), Latest contributions to cross- cultural psychology (pp. 176-191). Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.
Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (2001). Subjective time in a patient with neurological impairment. Psychologica, 28, 193-206. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Yoshida, M. (2002). Perception of nature: Scale values and cultural response bias. In J. A. Silva, E. Matsushima, & N. Ribeiro-Filho (Eds.), International Society for Psychophysics, 18, pp. 344-349. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Legis Summa Ltda. [abstract]
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (2002). Time perception: Unexpected invariances. In J. A. Silva, E. Matsushima, & N. Ribeiro-Filho (Eds.), International Society for Psychophysics, 18, p. 104. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Editora Legis Summa Ltda. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Yoshida, M. (2003). Perception of human ecology: cross-cultural and gender comparisons. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23, 89-101. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D. (2003). The human sense of time: Biological, cognitive, and cultural considerations. In R. Buccheri & M. Saniga (Eds.), The nature of time: Geometry, Physics and Perception (pp. 5-18). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Yoshida, M. (2003). Perception of global risks: A human ecological approach. In B. Berglund & E. Borg (Eds.), Fechner Day 2003 (pp. 65-70). Stockholm, Sweden: International Society for Psychophysics. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Montgomery, H. (2004). A quantitative model for retrospective subjective duration. NeuroQuantology, 4, 237-271. [abstract]
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Yoshida, M. (2006). The cognitive representations of global risks: Empirical studies. In W. J. Ammann, S. Dannemann, & L. Vulliet (Eds.), Coping with risks due to natural hazards in the 21st century - RISK 21 (pp. 109-116). London: Taylor & Francis Group.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Mori, S. (2007). Cognitive impairment and subjective time in Japanese schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics. In S. Mori, Miyaoka, T., & Wong, W. (Eds.), Fechner Day 2007 (pp. 245-250). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Tokyo: The International Society for Psychophysics.
Eisler, H., Eisler, A. D., & Hellström, A. (in press). Psychophysical issues in the study of time perception. In S. Grondin (Ed.), Psychology of time. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (submitted). Scalar Timing (Expectancy) Theory: A comparison between prospective and retrospective duration.
Eisler, H., & Eisler, A. D. (in preparation). Experienced speed of time in durations of known and of unknown length.
Eisler, A. D. Eisler, H., & Arvidsson, M. (in preparation). Perception of suicide and risk factors associated with suicidal behavior: Comparisons of Canadian and Swedish students.
Eisler, A. D. Eisler, H., & Arvidsson, M. (in preparation). Attitudes and opinion about suicide among schoolchildren: A developmental approach.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Geni, M. (in preparation). The impact of culture and gender on global risk perception: Comparison of Syriac immigrants and native Swedes.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., Ericsson, Ch. (in preparation). Risk judgments and the Cassandra syndrome.
Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (in preparation). The differences between estimations of the subjective duration in comparison with the physical duration are greater for males than for females.
Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (in preparation). Newtonian and Prigoginean concepts of time in a psychological perspective.
Eisler, A. D., Eisler, H., & Saliba, S. (in preparation). What does the cultural bakground tell us about attitudes and opinions towards suicide and suicidal behavior?
Eisler, A. D., & Eisler, H. (in preparation). Time perception across the lifespan.
Find Eisler's abstracts in the Annual Report database.
Selected and forthcoming presentations
The 4th International Congress of Biomathematics, Lima, Peru, September 18-23, 1989. "Time perception in humans". (Invited presentation of paper).
University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Radiobiology and Biomathematics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 26-30, 1989. Estimation of duration and psychophysical measurement. (Invited to give two seminars).
University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, Sensory Research Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2-7, 1989. Subjective duration and scaling methods. (Invited to give two seminars).
The 10th Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Nara, Japan, July 16-20, 1990. Time perception: Reproduction of duration by two cultural groups. (Invited, chairperson and presentation of paper)
Osaka University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan, July 22-24, 1990. Models of psychological time. (Invited to give two seminars).
The 6th Prague International Conference on Psychological Development and Personality Formative Processes, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 26-30, 1991. Time perception: Some reflections on biological and psychological time. (Invited presentation of paper).
The XIth Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Liège, Belgium, July 14-18, 1992. Cross-cultural differences in time perception. (Presentation of paper).
The 9th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 21-24, 1993. Age and gender differences in subjective duration. (Poster).
The XII Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Pamplona, Spain, July 24-27, 1994. Subjective time in a prospective paradigm: A cross-cultural comparison. (Poster)
The 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Vancouver, Canada, August 6-9, 1994. The effect of the interstimulus interval on duration reproductions. (Invited presentation of paper).
The 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,Vancouver, Canada, August 6-9, 1994. Psychological time in a prospective paradigm: Influence of age, gender and personality. (Poster).
The XVIII International Congress of the Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), "Suicide, Disease, Disadvantage. A Holistic Approach". Venice, Italy, June 4-8, 1995. Attitudes, beliefs and opinions about suicide: A Cross-cultural comparison of Sweden, Japan and Slovakia. Invited to participate in a symposium on "Attitudes toward suicide".
The IV European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 2-7, 1995. Time perception in extravert and introvert personalities. (Invited presentation of paper).
The IV European Congress of Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 2-7, 1995. Subjective time and personality in a prospective paradigm. (Poster).
The 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Cassis, France, Oct. 21-26, 1995. Time perception in children. (Poster).
The XIII Congress of the International Society for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Montréal, Canada, August 12-16, 1996. Perception of suicide: A cross-cultural comparison. (Invited, chairperson and presentation of paper)
The 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Padua, Italy, October 19-22, 1996. On the origin of breaks in psychophysical functions. (Invited presentation of paper).
The 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Padua, Italy, October 19-22, 1996. Prospective and retrospective time perception: Cognitive and biological approaches. (Poster).
University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, Sensory Research Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 15, 1997. Perceived speed of time and temporal judgment as functions of the same durations. (Invited to give a seminar).
Swedish Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Asociación Sueca), 1997-07-04. Psychological time and suicidal behavior. (Invited to give a seminar).
The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Poznan, Poland, August 16-19, 1997. Speed of time and unpleasantness of sound in known and unknown durations. (Poster).
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Québec, Canada, August 15-18, 1998. Speed of time and the psychophysical function for subjective duration. (Invited presentation of paper).
The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Québec, Canada, August 15-18, 1998. Subjective time in children. (Poster).
The 7th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour, Gent, Belgium, September 9-12, 1998. Gender differences in attitudes toward suicide: A cross-cultural comparison. (Poster).
The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Asociation (JPA), Tokyo, Japan, October 8-10, 1998. Time perception in Japanese schizophrenics. (Poster).
Osaka University, Faculty of Human sciences, Department of Behaviormetrics, Osaka, Japan, June 4, 1999. Suicide and suicidal behavior in a cross-cultural perspective. (Invited to give a seminar).
Osaka University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Behaviormetrics, Osaka, Japan, May 25 - June 14, 1999. Invited to give a course in "Cross-Cultural Psychology".
The European Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the International Test Commission, Graz, Austria, June 29 to July 2, 1999. Subjective duration in Japanese and Swedish males. (Presentation of paper).
The European Conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the International Test Commission, Graz, Austria, June 29 to July 2, 1999. Perception of suicide: A cross-cultural comparison of Argentina, Finland, and Sweden. (Poster).
The XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, July 23-28, 2000. Time perception in children: Empirical studies in a developmental perspective. Invited to participate in a symposium on "Psychophysical Measurement: Theory and Application". (Organizer: Prof. José A. da Silva).
The XVth Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Pultusk, Poland, July 16-21, 2000. Newtonian and Prigoginean concepts of time: Physical, psychological and cultural perspectives. Invited to participate in a symposium on "Metatheories on the natural sciences and in cross-cultural psychology: Implications of a post-Newtonian worldview". (Organizer: Prof. Kyle D. Smith).
The XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, July 23-28, 2000. Perception of human ecology: A cross-cultural comparison. (Presentation of paper).
The XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, July 23-28, 2000. Perception of ecological risk factors: A comparison of German, Japanese, Swedish and United States college students. (Poster).
The XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, July 23-28, 2000. A cross-cultural comparison of discrepancies between attitudes and behavior in ecological issues. (Poster).
The 31st European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting, Graz, Austria, September 3-7, 2000. The difference between retrospective and prospective subjective duration and the parallel-clock model. (Presentation of paper).
The 31st European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting, Graz, Austria, September 3-7, 2000. Time perception in the brain damaged patient H.M. (Poster).
The VIIth European Congress of Psychology, London, England, 1-6 July, 2001. Time perception: Comparison of schizophrenic and healthy Japanese males. (Poster).
The XIIth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5-8 September, 2001. Human sense of time: Biological, cognitive, and cultural perspectives. Invited to participate in a symposium on "The cognitive psychology and neurophysiology of time."
NATO Advanced Research Workshop. The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception. Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, May 21-24, 2002. Key Note Address: Time perception: Physical, biological and psychological considerations.
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 22-26, 2002. Time perception: Unexpected invariances. (Invited presentation of paper).
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 22-26, 2002. Perception of nature: Scale values and cultural response bias. (Poster).
International Symposium. The Mind-Body Problem: Old Question, New Answers.
Ribeirao Preto, Brazil: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto, October 29-30, 2002. Invited paper: Psychological Time in Schizophrenics.
International Symposium. The Mind-Body Problem: Old Question, New Answers.
Ribeirao Preto, Brazil: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto, October 29-30, 2002. Invited paper: Risk Perception: Cultural and Gender Differences.
International Symposium. The Mind-Body Problem: Old Question, New Answers.
Ribeirao Preto, Brazil: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto, October 29-30, 2002. Invited paper: Scaling (subjective?) Duration in Rats.
The VIIIth European Congress of Psychology, Vienna, Austria, 6-11 July, 2003. The Impact of Culture and Gender on Risk Perception. (Presentation of paper).
The 6th Regional Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Budapest, Hungary, July 12-16, 2003. The Inconsistency Between Self-reported Behavior and Attitudes and Belief Toward Global Environmental Issues. (Presentation of paper).
The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Larnaca, Cyprus, October 19-23, 2003. Perception of global risks: A human ecological approach. (Poster).
The Third Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference, Cavalese, Val di Fiemme, Italy, June 27 - July 3, 2004. Cognitive impairment and subjective time in schizophrenia. (Presentation of paper).
The Third Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference, Cavalese, Val di Fiemme, Italy, June 27 - July 3, 2004. The landscape of global risks. (Poster).
The 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 8-13, 2004.
Invited as symposium organizer - symposium. Time perception in humans.
The 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, August 8-13, 2004. Cross-cultural ranking of perceived global human-environment interactions. (Poster).
The Swiss Natural Hazards Competence Centre (CENAT) Workshop, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, November 28 - December 3, 2004. Invited Key note address: Theoretical considerations and empirical studies of the influence of culture and gender on perception of risks.
The XXIV World Congress of IASP, Preventing suicide across the lifespan: Dreams and realities, Killarney, Ireland, August 28 - September 1, 2007. Invited paper: Perception of suicide and risk factors associated with suicidal behavior.
The 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Fechner Day, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-23, 2007. Cognitive impairment and subjective time in Japanese schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics. (Poster).
Memberships in Scientific Societies
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
New York Academy of Sciences
International Society for Psychophysics
International Society for the Study of Time
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
International Association for Suicide Prevention
International Society for Mathematical Psychology
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Teaching in Japan
Course leader: Course for doctoral students in ”Cross-cultural psychology” at Osaka University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan, May 1999.
International collaboration
Montana State University, Department of Psychology, Bozeman, MT, USA (Prof. Richard Block)
University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, Sensory Research Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Prof. Miguelina Guirao)
Osaka University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka, Japan (Prof. Mitsuo Yoshida)
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Social and Biological Communication, Bratislava, Slovakia (Associate Professor Gabriel Bianchi).
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Criminology, Ramat Gan, Israel (Prof. Joseph Glicksohn)
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan (Prof. Shuji Mori)
Université Laval, École de psychologie, Québec, Canada (Prof. Simon Grondin).
Links
Home Pages at Osaka University in Japan:
koko15.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/~taco/soumu/members/assoc/ hannes/picture1.html
koko15.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/~taco/soumu/members/assoc/ hannes/
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception.
www.cenat.ch, CENAT Monte Veritá Workshop, Coping with Risks due to Natural Hazards in the 21st Century.
www.adsabs.harvard.edu Smitshonian/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service.
