Dr. Samuel Oduya

Professor of Temporal Perception

Department of Almost

Biography

Why does Tuesday feel like nothing? Why do Sundays have a specific 'flavor'? Dr. Oduya, formerly of the University of Nairobi's psychology department, has dedicated his career to understanding the subjective experience of calendar time. His research on 'day-of-week affect' has revealed consistent cross-cultural patterns in how humans emotionally color their weeks. He is also investigating why 'five more minutes' is never five minutes.

Research Interests

Day-of-week affect and temporal coloring
Subjective time dilation and compression
The phenomenology of 'five more minutes'
Sunday scaries and Monday blues
Why February feels longest despite being shortest

Selected Publications

The Tuesday Problem: Why the Second Weekday Has No Personality
Sunday Dread: Anticipatory Anxiety and Temporal Perception in Weekend Endings
Five More Minutes: A Cross-Cultural Study of Temporal Negotiation Failures
The Color of Wednesday: Synesthetic Associations in Calendar Cognition
Why Time Flies When Nothing Is Due: Deadline Proximity and Subjective Duration

Education

Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology University of Nairobi, 2005
M.Phil., Philosophy of Mind University of Edinburgh, 2000
B.A., Psychology Makerere University, 1997