Money & society · 2025
How did caring for houseplants shape respondents’ sense of time during COVID-19 lockdown?
Caring for houseplants helped structure respondents’ daily routines and made the present feel more vivid during COVID-19 lockdown, according to this sociological study. The abstract does not report a comparison group or enough methodological detail to establish that plant care alone caused these changes.
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The study examined houseplant care and the experience of time during lockdown. The researchers interpreted repeated care and attention to the plants’ own rhythms as ways respondents organized everyday life. They also linked emotional bonds formed through care to a more vivid sense of the present.
The central finding concerns respondents’ experience of time. The authors connect it to a broader discussion of how new habits and routines might reshape people’s understanding of the present and future. The abstract does not specify how the data were collected, how many people participated or whether there was a comparison group, so it is difficult to judge how widely these experiences apply.
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