Researchers on temporal extension have moved from using global measures of temporal extension to using domain-specific measures. A reanalysis of 1992 data from 98 boys and 103 girls tested whether domain-specific measures of temporal extension were correlated with global measures of both past and future temporal extension. Moderate correlations support the generalisation of findings from earlier studies, using global measures, to more recent studies with domain-specific measures.
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