When do people feel as if they are rich in time? Not often, research and daily experience suggest. However, three experiments showed that participants who felt awe, relative to other emotions, felt they had more time available (Experiments 1 and 3) and were less impatient (Experiment 2). Participants who experienced awe also were more willing to volunteer their time to help other people (Experiment 2), more strongly preferred experiences over material products (Experiment 3), and experienced greater life satisfaction (Experiment 3). Mediation analyses revealed that these changes in decision making and well-being were due to awe's ability to alter the subjective experience of time. Experiences of awe bring people into the present moment, and being in the present moment underlies awe's capacity to adjust time perception, influence decisions, and make life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise.

It is now well accepted that the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidality in clinical practice is one of the most challenging and stressful tasks for any clinician (Jobes, 1995). The literature in suicidology routinely differentiates among treatment, treatment outcome, and risk assessment (e.g., Rudd, Joiner, & Rajab, 2000), with no clear theoretical link across the three areas. Additionally, there has been limited work addressing content versus process issues in each area specific to suicide risk assessment. The current theory being offered focuses specifically on the risk assessment process, not treatment outcome. Furthermore, its focus is not on the specific content of risk assessment (i.e., what questions to ask across what content domains). A considerable amount is known about the content of risk assessment (e.g., Rudd et al., 2000). This is a fairly significant departure from the routine in suicidology, but it is one I believe to be important for a number of reasons that are emphasized in this chapter.

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Emotional bonding during emergency clinical encounters is associated with patient-clinician synchrony in emotional states. During crisis interventions, emotional bonding is also associated with mutual down-regulation of emotional arousal among patients and clinicians. (PsycINFO Database Record

Although a substantial amount of research has examined the link between money and happiness, far less has examined the link between time and happiness. This paper argues, however, that time plays a critical role in understanding happiness, and it complements the money-spending happiness principles in Dunn, Gilbert, and Wilson (2011) by offering five time-spending happiness principles: 1) spend time with the right people; 2) spend time on the right activities; 3) enjoy the experience without spending the time; 4) expand your time; and 5) be aware that happiness changes over time.