The game features awesome music by Jimmy 'Big Giant Circles' Hinson (of 'Mass Effect 2' fame) and is frequently updated with more content. There are definitely likely other causes as well,' he says.What does Extreme Road Trip 2 do? Your gas pedal is stuck AGAIN! Do stunts to get nitro boost and SLAM it all down to unlock the insane speed of OVERDRIVE! Collect coins to unlock new cars as you play! Complete missions and get rewards! Roy doubts all psychologists will agree with their conclusion that expectation is an important cause of the trip home effect. 'It's really all about your expectations - what you think coming in,' says Michael Roy, a psychologist at Elizabethtown College and a co-author with van de Ven on the article describing this effect in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 'So you start the return journey, and you think, 'Wow, this is going to take a long time.''īut just as initial optimism made the trip out feel longer than expected, this pessimism starting back makes the trip home feel shorter. That feeling of pessimism carries over to when they're ready to return home. So when they finish the outbound trip, they feel like it took longer than they expected.

In 1976, during the Soweto Uprising in which unarmed students were stormed and killed by police for refusing to study in. I took a Soweto tour during a long-ago visit to South Africa, to see a place that overflowed with meaning. Here's what van de Ven thinks is going on: 'Often we see that people are too optimistic when they start to travel,' he says. Let me begin by saying I have engaged in slum tourism (a basic definition of slum tourism would be the kind of tourism that takes you to see impoverished communities). Both groups had the same feeling that the return trip was shorter. When he did the experiment, he found the route didn't matter. In the end, this return trip effect gives you a positive feeling once you get home, so I'm not sure whether you want it to go away. When I look out of the window, I don't see something I recognize,' van de Ven says. 'When I take, for example, an airplane, I also have this feeling, and I don't recognize anything on my way, of course. 'And that might help to increase the feeling of speed, of how fast you travel,' he says.īut that didn't seem right to him. Niels van de Ven, a psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, says the conventional wisdom is the trip back seems shorter because it's more familiar, so people recognize landmarks. But the point remains that this so-called 'return trip effect' is a very real psychological phenomenon, and now a new scientific study provides an explanation. In the case of Apollo 12, the trip back from the moon really did take somewhat less time. People will often feel a return trip took less time than the same outbound journey, even though it didn't.

Although the trip going to the moon covered the same distance as the trip back, 'returning from the moon seemed much shorter,' Bean says. In 1969, astronaut Alan Bean went to the moon as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12. Does getting home from your vacation spot always seem to take less time than getting there? A new scientific study provides an explanation for why.

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