Lachlan Kent

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I am steadily growing a foundation for research into time, consciousness, mental health, and the environment.

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Published articles

2025: The dual continua in youth mental health policy and practice: Screening and intervention (pdf)Download
2024: Luu et al - How university climate impacts staff mental health a qualitative study (pdf)Download
2024: Mental gravity - Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment (pdf)Download
2023: Mental gravity - Depression as curvature of the brain's spacetime (pdf)Download
2023: Can disorders of subjective time inform the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders? (pdf)Download
2021: Time consciousness: The missing link in the theories of consciousness (pdf)Download
2019: Systema Temporis (pdf)Download
2019: Bayes, Time Perception and Relativity (pdf)Download
2019: Time Dilation and Acceleration in Depression (pdf)Download
2019: Duration perception versus perception duration (pdf)Download

Preprints

Mental Gravity (preprint)

Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

The theory of Mental Gravity explains what it means to be psychologically “down” and how mental downness manifests in various aspects of cognition and behaviour, emotion and personality, the brain, phenomenology, and psychopathology. T

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Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

The relationship between time perception and affect is bidirectional: Negative affective states tend to dilate (i.e., expand or slow) perceived duration, and unexpected delays (i.e., expanded durations) can induce negative affect like boredom or frustration. 

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Systema Psyches

Time Perception and Depression Symptoms

Systema Psyches

Expanding on an integrated model of cognitive and emotional intelligence (i.e., Systema Temporis) that ranged up to the timescales of human memory, Systema Psychesincorporates longer timescales relevant to sociocultural and biological evolution. 

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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land upon which I live, the Bunurong people of the Southeast Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.


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