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The Duration Inventory instructed a sample of Indian adolescents to define the extensions of the distant and near past and future, and past and future borders of the present in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years. An examination of these extensions is reported along with a description of the ways in which extensions are related at the four time zone boundaries: Distant Past-Near Past; Present-Near Past; Present-Near Future; and Distant Future-Near Future. The boundaries are called bracketing regions and the various forms of zone relatedness, bracketing designs. Four major designs are demonstrated: overlapping, interval continuity, extended continuity, and atomicity. Relationships among designs and between designs and time zone extensions are reported. Age and sex variations also are noted. Finally, the notion of identity is enlisted to explain variations in bracketing and extension.

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Temporal Extension and Time Zone Bracketing in Indian Adolescents

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