Sadeghi and colleagues link feeling crowded to believing that time is passing more slowly than it actually is. They report that they learned via having people take a virtual subway ride that “increased crowding decreased pleasantness and increased the unpleasantness of a trip. Virtual crowding also lengthened perceived trip duration.”
Saeedeh Sadeghi, Ricardo Daziano, So-Yeon Yoon and Adam Anderson. 2022. “Affective Experience in a Virtual Crowd Regulates Perceived Travel Time.” Virtual Reality, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10055-022-00713-8