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To Nostalgize
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This review rehabilitates nostalgia as a predominantly positive, social, self-conscious emotion that serves self-oriented, existential, and sociality functions and helps regulate psychological and physiological homeostasis. It synthesizes historical, prototype, cross-cultural, and experimental evidence showing nostalgia is common, pancultural, and triggered by threats, then alleviates them.
Key findings
- Nostalgia is described as bittersweet but mostly positive, social, and past-oriented, arising from fond memories and yearning about childhood, close relationships, or atypically positive events, with a redemption trajectory. It is prevalent: UK samples report experiencing it at least weekly and modally three times a week, across ages 18–91 and also among children and teenagers.
- Prototype work identified 35 features, split into 18 central and 17 peripheral features (median 5.68). Across 18 countries, ranking profiles were highly correlated: all 153 correlations were positive and significant, 96.08% exceeded ρ = .50, 40.52% exceeded ρ = .80, and the mean/median correlation was ρ = .78; all but Cameroon showed the same ordinal pattern, and all but Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Uganda formed one cluster.
- Nostalgia serves self-oriented functions (self-positivity, self-esteem, optimism, psychological growth), existential functions (meaning in life), and sociality functions (social connectedness, support, empathy, prosocial behavior, reduced desire for money, intergroup contact intentions). Nostalgia-elicited sociality often mediates the self and existential functions, and these effects are generally independent of positive affect.
- A regulatory/homeostatic model is supported: threats such as avoidance motivation, self-threat, meaninglessness, mortality awareness, loneliness, exclusion, stress, boredom, and cold increase nostalgia; nostalgia then alleviates them. For cold, daily temperature was negatively associated with nostalgia (t[550] = −2.17, r = −.09), cold (20°C) produced more nostalgia than normal (24°C) or hot (28°C), and nostalgia increased perceived warmth and cold-pressor endurance at 4°C.
Methods
- This is a narrative review and theoretical synthesis of the authors’ research program, not a single new empirical study; it integrates historical analysis, dictionary and lay prototype studies, cross-cultural comparisons, and many correlational and experimental studies.
- Samples include UK, US, Dutch, Chinese, Irish, and other participants; university students, community adults, children/teenagers aged 9–15, and adults aged 18–91; the cross-cultural prototype work spanned 18 countries across five continents.
- Main analyses include prototype centrality ratings, rank-order correlations, cluster and factor analyses, and experiments using the Event Reflection Task (nostalgic vs. ordinary/positive/future event), music, song lyrics, and scents; mediation and moderation were tested with bootstrapping, SEM, and hierarchical linear modeling.
Limitations
- The paper states that long-term benefits of nostalgia may be only transient and that this remains a knowledge gap; it also notes that its nostalgia manipulations were momentary, one-off, and mundane, likely minimal, and that many outcomes relied on self-report.
- The paper states that the cross-cultural prototype work recruited university students to maintain consistency in education and age, limiting generalizability.
- Evident from the text: the review is not a systematic or meta-analytic synthesis, much evidence comes from the same research group, and several mediational findings rely on self-report, though alternative causal sequences were tested and generally fit less well.
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“The narratives were substantially richer in positive affect than in negative affect.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006 source
The Study 1 affective-signature passage (Nostalgia 10) says the narratives were richer in expressions of positive affect (M = 3.12) than negative affect (M = 1.25), with p < .001. The Summary of Findings (Nostalgia 37) repeats this conclusion. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“The most common objects of nostalgic yearning were close others (e.g., family, romantic partners, friends), followed by momentous life events that included close others (e.g., weddings, graduations, family gatherings), animals (i.e., pets), tangibles (e.g., a coat), and settings (e.g., a lake).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The “Object of nostalgia” section and Table 2 give the claimed ordering for Study 1: persons, momentous events, animals, tangibles, then settings. But Table 2 shows a different ordering in Study 2: momentous events were most common, settings exceeded animals and tangibles, and periods in life were also frequent. The “Content of Nostalgic Experience” section says momentous events often involved close others. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“Participants in the nostalgia condition scored higher on Fun Seeking and Drive, but not Reward Responsiveness, than those in the control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The Approach motivation results report significantly higher Fun Seeking scores in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition. They also support the rest of the citing sentence: Drive was significantly higher, while Reward Responsiveness did not differ significantly. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Wildschut et al. (2006) obtained direct experimental support for the idea that nostalgia augments self-esteem.Participants in the nostalgic-event (relative to ordinary-event) condition reported higher self-esteem, regardless of whether it was assessed with a brief scale (”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.1 Positive self-attribute activation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 5 source
The Functions section (around p. 34) reports significantly higher self-esteem in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition. The Discussion also describes the findings as evidence that nostalgia increases self-regard. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 6 source
The Functions results (p. 34) report significantly higher self-esteem in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition. The Discussion also states that the findings support the idea that nostalgia increases self-regard. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“In all, nostalgia is positively related to approach motivation and sparks approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that experimentally induced nostalgia increased approach motivation in Study 3, supporting the claim that it sparks approach motivation. It also describes correlational evidence from Studies 1–2 that nostalgia is positively related to approach motivation. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“High narcissists reported a greater proportion of agency words in their narratives compared to low narcissists.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.3 Individual differences
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 1) source
Study 1’s Results and discussion directly report that high narcissists used a greater proportion of agency words in their nostalgic narratives than low narcissists. The Data analytic strategy explains that word counts were expressed as percentages of narrative length. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“We have reported that nostalgic narratives are characterized by themes where the self is the main character in a positive chain of events (i.e., redemption; Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1 Self-positivity
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2 source
The Discussion says that in both studies the self figured prominently in nostalgic memories and that negative scenes were usually redeemed by later successes or triumphs. The “Redemption versus contamination” section reports that redemption sequences were more prevalent than contamination sequences (67% versus 29%). Page numbers were not supplied in the passages. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Participants in the nostalgia condition scored higher on Fun Seeking and Drive, but not Reward Responsiveness, than those in the control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
In the Study 3 “Approach motivation” results (page not specified), nostalgia participants scored significantly higher on Fun Seeking and Drive, but did not differ significantly from controls on Reward Responsiveness (p = .457). The latter mean was slightly higher, so “not higher” is supported in the context of a nonsignificant difference, not as a literal comparison of means. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The composite nostalgia scale was positively correlated with all three BAS components.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The Method section identifies the participants as members of the Dutch general public and describes the nostalgia composite. The Results section states that nostalgia was positively correlated with all three BAS-related scales: Fun Seeking, Drive, and Reward Responsiveness. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Participants in the nostalgia condition scored higher on Fun Seeking and Drive, but not Reward Responsiveness, than those in the control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The Approach motivation results report that participants in the nostalgia condition scored significantly higher on Drive than controls (M = 4.28 versus 3.74; p = .008). The same passage also supports the citing sentence’s findings for Fun Seeking and Reward Responsiveness. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Participants in the nostalgic-song condition reported higher levels of self-esteem (assessed with two items adapted from Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7;”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.2 Self-esteem
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 3 source
Study 3’s Method (p. 13) describes a sample aged 14–67, 97% of whom identified the Netherlands as their country of birth, and random assignment to a nostalgic or control song. The Results and Discussion (p. 14) report significantly higher self-esteem in the nostalgic-song condition. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“We engaged in content analyses of stories submitted to the periodical Nostalgia (Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 1) and of event descriptions that participants furnished under a nostalgia writing prompt (Wildschut et al., Study 2).In both cases, a redemptive sequence far outweighed a contamination sequence.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.2 Structure of nostalgic accounts
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 1 source
The Summary of Findings identifies Study 1 as a content analysis of narratives published in Nostalgia and Study 2 as participants’ written accounts of recalled nostalgic experiences. The redemption-versus-contamination results report significantly more redemption sequences in both studies: 67% versus 29% in Study 1 and 76% versus 15% in Study 2. (LLM, conf=0.95)
- Not matchedcites Wildschut et al., Study 2
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“nostalgia is experienced not only among adults of all ages (in UK and US samples; Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014;Routledge et al., 2011) but also among older children and teenagers (in Chinese samples; Zhou et al., 2008).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.5 Prevalence of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Zhou et al., 2008 source
The Method Participants and Procedure section reports a Chinese sample of children aged 9–15, spanning older childhood and the teenage years. It also says the children understood the Chinese term for nostalgia and described nostalgic experiences as common and familiar. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“In all, nostalgia is positively related to approach motivation and sparks approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that nostalgia was positively associated with approach motivation in Studies 1–2. It also reports that experimentally induced nostalgia increased approach motivation in Study 3, supporting the sentence’s claim that nostalgia sparks it. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Level of narcissism was unrelated to proportion of communion words.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.3 Individual differences
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 1) source
Study 1’s Results and discussion report that narcissism was not significantly associated with the proportion of communal words in nostalgic narratives (r(58) = −.18, p = .16). This supports the citing sentence’s description of the observed relationship. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“We replicated these result patterns in Cheung et al., Study 4, with a sample of UK undergraduates who read idiosyncratically derived nostalgic versus control-song lyrics.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 4 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Study 4 used personally nostalgic versus control lyrics with University of Southampton undergraduates (Method, p. 16), and the nostalgic-lyrics group reported higher optimism (Results and Discussion, p. 17). The study also found a significant indirect effect through self-esteem, but the direct effect on optimism was not significant after accounting for social connectedness and self-esteem (Results and Discussion, p. 18). Thus, the claimed replication of both direct and indirect effects overstates the Study 4 result. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“We demonstrated a causal connection between nostalgia and social connectedness, which we operationalized as: feeling loved, protected, connected to others, and trusting of others; experiencing attachment security; feeling socially supported; or being empathetic.”
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“In conclusion, nostalgia fosters social connectedness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.1 Nostalgia fosters social connectedness
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006 source
The Function Question section (p. 38) reports that participants assigned to recall a nostalgic event scored higher on social bonding than controls. It also reports a replication using attachment measures, supporting the claim that nostalgia increases social connectedness. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Not matchedcites Reid et al., 2014
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al., 2012 source
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“Nostalgia increased optimism.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 2 source
The Abstract (p. 3) reports that experimentally induced nostalgia boosted optimism in Study 2. The Coda (p. 24) concludes that the research established that nostalgia promotes optimism. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Also, recollection and projection share cognitive and neurological processes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hassabis et al., 2007 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Klein et al., 2002 source
- Supportedcites Addis et al., 2009 source
The Abstract says that remembering past events and imagining future ones rely on similar cognitive processes, and that these commonalities are associated with overlapping neural activity. This supports the claim about shared cognitive and neurological processes. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Lastly, pondering the past and the future entails a common neural network (Buckner & Carroll, 2007;Viard et al., 2011).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Buckner & Carroll, 2007 source
- Supportedcites Viard et al., 2011 source
The Discussion reports a bilateral parieto-fronto-temporal network commonly active during recall of past and future events. The Conclusion likewise says that thinking about the past and future recruits the same set of brain regions in healthy aged adults. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Chinese undergraduates who brought to mind a nostalgic (vs.ordinary) event manifested stronger perceptions of social support.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.1.3 Feeling socially supported
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Zhou et al., 2008 source
Study 3’s Method Participants section identifies 66 Fudan University undergraduates. Materials and Procedures says they recalled either a nostalgic or an ordinary event, and Results and Discussion reports significantly higher perceived social support in the nostalgic condition (5.39 vs. 4.87). Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Participants in the nostalgic-event condition indeed reported higher perceived interpersonal competence than their ordinary-event counterparts.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.1 Interpersonal competence
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006 source
Study 7’s Interpersonal Competence results (p. 36) report higher scores in the nostalgia condition than the control condition for initiation, self-disclosure, and emotional support. The measure is explicitly described as assessing perceived competence (p. 35), and the control task involved recalling an ordinary event. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Nostalgic events incorporated more references to optimism than ordinary events.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 1 source
The Results and Discussion (p. 11) report that nostalgic narratives contained a significantly higher proportion of optimism expressions than ordinary autobiographical narratives. This directly supports the paraphrase. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Patients with difficulty in remembering past events also have difficulty imagining new experiences (Hassabis, Kumaran, Vann, & Maguire, 2007;Klein, Loftus, & Kihlstrom, 2002) or anticipating their future in detail (Addis, Sacchetti, Ally, Budson, & Schacter, 2009;Brown, Dorfman, Marmar, & Bryant, 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Addis et al., 2009 source
The Discussion (Autobiographical Interview of Past and Future Events; page not provided) reports that patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease generated significantly fewer episodic details than healthy older adults when describing both past and future events. The Discussion’s Remote and Prospective Memory section likewise identifies deficits in remembering past events and simulating future events, predominantly in their episodic details. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Brown et al., 2012 source
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“Nostalgics (relative to controls) chose to sit in closer physical proximity to the interaction partner.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.2.1 Physical proximity
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
In Study 4, participants arranged two chairs for a forthcoming conversation with another person. The seating-distance results report that the nostalgia group placed the chairs closer together than the control group (85.70 vs. 104.51 cm, p = .003). (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“These results generalized above and beyond the contributions of the Big Five.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 3) source
The Results and discussion for Study 3 (§8) state that narcissism predicted self-positivity from a nostalgic song above and beyond age, gender, and the Big Five. The authors explicitly say this replicated the earlier findings while controlling for the Big Five. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“First, nostalgic narrations, scents, or songs produce more positive affect than negative affect (Barrett et al., 2010;Reid et al., 2014;Wildschut et al., 2006, Studies 1 and 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Barrett et al., 2010 source
- Not matchedcites Reid et al., 2014
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- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Studies 1 and 2 source
Wildschut et al.’s Studies 1 and 2 support the narration portion of the multiply cited sentence. The Summary of Findings (p. 37) says nostalgic narratives contained more positive than negative affect, and participants reported more positive than negative affect after recalling a nostalgic event. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“In addition, high (relative to low) narcissists derived marginally more sociality by listening to a nostalgic song.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 3) source
Study 3’s Results and discussion report that narcissism marginally predicted social connectedness from a nostalgic song (p = .07), after controlling for age, gender, and Big Five traits. The paper describes this as listening to a song, although the Study 3 procedure asked participants to bring one to mind; it also reports that the unadjusted association was not significant. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Nostalgia strengthens intergroup contact intentions (Turner et al., 2012, Experiment 1).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.4 Intergroup contact intentions
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Turner et al., 2012 source
The Outgroup Attitudes section measures willingness to talk to and spend time with overweight people—intergroup contact intentions. The Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Components of Outgroup Attitudes section reports stronger approach tendencies in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Nostalgics helped more (i.e., picked up a higher number of pencils) than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.2.1 Physical proximity
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
Study 5’s “Approach behavior: helping” results report that participants in the nostalgia condition picked up more pencils than controls (18.20 versus 14.67 on average). The paper explicitly uses the number of pencils picked up as its index of helpfulness. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Notably, this effect was mediated by increased outgroup trust and reduced intergroup anxiety.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.4 Intergroup contact intentions
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Turner et al., 2012 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Outgroup Trust as a Mediator section reports that nostalgia increased trust toward overweight people and that trust mediated its effect on outgroup attitudes. Those attitudes included a behavioral component, but the paper does not establish mediation of intergroup contact intentions specifically. The Comparative Strength of Mediators section (p. 10) identifies inclusion of the outgroup in the self—not reduced intergroup anxiety—as the other tested mediator. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“High (compared to low) narcissists derived more self-positivity (but not more sociality) from nostalgia and were more nostalgic for agentic (but not for communal) themes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 2) source
The General Discussion reports that high, compared with low, narcissists’ nostalgic narratives contained more agentic references in Study 1. Section 6.1 reports that they were significantly more nostalgic for agentic objects in Study 2, supporting the paraphrase about agentic themes. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Replicating the previous study, high (compared to low) narcissists derived more selfpositivity by listening to a nostalgic song.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 3) source
The Study 3 Results and discussion (section 8) state that narcissism predicted how much self-positivity participants reported deriving from a nostalgic song, with higher narcissism associated with more self-positivity. The paper describes this as a replication of the previous finding. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“High (compared to low) narcissists derived more self-positivity (but not more sociality) from nostalgia and were more nostalgic for agentic (but not for communal) themes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 2) source
The Abstract says nostalgia served a self-positivity function, but not a social connectedness function, for high versus low narcissists. Study 2, §6.2, reports that narcissism was not significantly associated with nostalgia’s social connectedness function (r(96) = .16, p = .12). (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“High (compared to low) narcissists derived more self-positivity (but not more sociality) from nostalgia and were more nostalgic for agentic (but not for communal) themes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 2) source
Study 2 (§6.1; page unavailable) found that narcissism was not significantly associated with nostalgia for communal objects. Study 1 is also described in §5 as finding no significant association with communal references. Together, these support the claim as a statement that no difference was detected, rather than proof of equivalence. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“this is a notable domain in which we are able to see that the effects of nostalgia extend beyond self-report measures and impact actual behavior.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.2.3 Monetary donations
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that experimentally induced nostalgia increased approach behavior in Studies 4–5, measured by seating distance and helping behavior. The Discussion distinguishes these behavioral measures from the self-reported approach motivation assessed in Studies 1–3. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“High (compared to low) narcissists derived more self-positivity (but not more sociality) from nostalgia and were more nostalgic for agentic (but not for communal) themes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hart et al. (2011, Study 2) source
Section 6.2 (Nostalgic functions) states that nostalgia more strongly served a self-positivity function for high than low narcissists. Section 8 (Results and discussion) reports the same pattern in a further study. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Self-esteem mediates the effect of nostalgia on optimism, but where does self-esteem originate?”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.1 Nostalgia-elicited sociality and the self-oriented function of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013 source
The Results and Discussion (p. 15) report a significant indirect effect of nostalgia on optimism through self-esteem. The Summary and Implications (p. 21) likewise states that nostalgia raises self-esteem, which in turn heightens optimism. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In the case of mortality salience (but not control), more nostalgic participants reported higher meaning.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.2 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to meaning
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Routledge et al., 2008, Experiment 1 source
In Experiment 1, the Results (p. 8) report that participants who viewed their past more positively perceived life as more meaningful in the mortality-salience condition, with no such relationship in the control condition. The paper used positive perceptions of the past as a proxy for nostalgia proneness. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Also, avoidance motivation led to higher nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014, Study 2 source
The State nostalgia results report higher nostalgia in the avoidance-motivation condition than in the control condition. The General Discussion also states that avoidance motivation increased nostalgia in the experimental Study 2. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In turn, nostalgia softened the influence of avoidance motivation on approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion says avoidance-induced nostalgia strengthens approach motivation, thereby counteracting the potentially adverse influence of avoidance motivation. That supports “softened” as a description of nostalgia’s indirect, counteracting effect—not as a claim that the direct negative association became weaker when nostalgia was included in the analysis. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Avoidance motivation also predicted greater nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The State nostalgia section reports that participants in the avoidance-motivation condition were significantly more nostalgic than controls. This directly supports the citing sentence. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Again, in the mortalitysalience condition, nostalgia decreased death-thought accessibility.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.3 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated activation of death cognitions
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Routledge et al., 2008, Experiment 3 source
The Experiment 3 Results report that, within the mortality-salience conditions, participants assigned to nostalgia had significantly lower death-thought accessibility than those assigned to non-nostalgia (M = 1.56 versus 2.11, p < .05). This directly supports the cited comparison. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Avoidance (relative to control) motivation tended to lower approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014, Study 2 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Approach motivation results report nonsignificant trends toward lower Fun Seeking and Drive in the avoidance-motivation group than in controls. Reward Responsiveness, another measure of approach motivation, instead showed a slight, nonsignificant increase, so the unqualified claim is broader than the results support. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“At an explicit level, nostalgic narratives include redemptive and agency themes (Abeyta et al., 2014;Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al., 2014 source
- Partly supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Study 2’s results (Nostalgia 14) report that redemption sequences appeared in 76% of nostalgic narratives, supporting the redemptive-themes claim. The Study 2 content findings say the self was a central character in almost all narratives, but do not establish that the narratives contained agency themes; a prominent self is not necessarily an agentic one. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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In the paper
“In the mortality-salience (but not control) condition, higher levels of nostalgia were associated with lower death-thought accessibility.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.3 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated activation of death cognitions
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Routledge et al., 2008, Experiment 2 source
The Results (p. 11) report that greater nostalgia proneness was associated with lower death-thought accessibility in the mortality-salience condition, but not in the control condition. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“In turn, avoidance-elicited nostalgia predicted stronger approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014, Study 2 source
The General Discussion reports that nostalgia was positively associated with approach motivation in Studies 1–2 and that the indirect effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation via nostalgia was significant. It describes the findings as consistent with avoidance-induced nostalgia strengthening approach motivation. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Loneliness emerged as the most frequently mentioned discrete emotional trigger of nostalgia in UK undergraduates' narratives (Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.1 Loneliness, nostalgia, and sociality
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2 source
In Study 2, the Triggers of Nostalgia section describes participants’ accounts of when they felt nostalgic. The results (p. 16) say loneliness was “by far the most frequently mentioned discrete affective state” among those reporting a discrete negative affective trigger. The paper identifies the Study 2 participants as University of Southampton undergraduates. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Stated otherwise, the negative effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation was strengthened when we controlled for the positive association between nostalgia and approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that, when avoidance motivation and nostalgia jointly predicted approach motivation, the negative link between avoidance and approach motivation strengthened and became statistically significant. This result applied to Fun Seeking and Drive as measures of approach motivation in Studies 1–2. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“When avoidance motivation and nostalgia jointly predicted approach motivation (i.e., when the positive association between nostalgia and approach motivation was controlled for), the negative effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation was strengthened.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014, Study 2 source
The General Discussion states that when avoidance motivation and nostalgia jointly predicted approach motivation, the negative link was strengthened and became statistically significant in Studies 1–2. The finding applied to Fun Seeking and Drive as indices of approach motivation; the paper reports a different pattern for Reward Responsiveness. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Avoidance motivation (aversive state) predicted weaker approach motivation in regards to Fun Seeking and Drive (negative influence on an outcome).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The Study 1 Discussion reports that avoidance motivation was negatively associated with Fun Seeking and Drive when nostalgia was included in the model. The Testing the regulatory model section reports the same negative effect in Study 2; the unadjusted differences were nonsignificant trends. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“We have found that nostalgia nurtures optimism (Cheung et al., 2013).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013 source
The Coda (p. 24) explicitly states that the research established nostalgia promotes optimism, which supports the citing sentence’s paraphrase. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Nostalgia builds on the uniquely human capacity to reflect on the past (Routledge & Arndt, 2005;Sedikides & Skowronski, 1997;Sedikides, Skowronski, et al., 2006;Sedikides, Wildschut, et al., 2006).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge & Arndt, 2005
- Partly supportedcites Sedikides & Skowronski, 1997 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Symbolic Self (p. 16) describes introspection, self-reflection, and autobiographical self-evaluation as human capacities unprecedented in nonhuman animals. Implications for the Evolution of the Symbolic Self (p. 10) also says people can consider themselves in alternative times, but the paper does not connect this capacity to nostalgia. (LLM, conf=0.85)
- Not matchedcites Sedikides, Skowronski, et al., 2006
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“nostalgia may promote longevity (Boyle, Barnes, Buchman, & Bennett, 2009)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Could not verifycites Boyle, Barnes, Buchman, & Bennett, 2009 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Methods describe a study of purpose in life and mortality among older persons, not nostalgia. The Discussion speculates that purpose in life may involve life review, but does not examine whether nostalgia promotes longevity. Searches for nostalgia, reminiscence, and memories of the past found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.75)
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“We have found that nostalgic reflection strengthens intentions for intergroup contact (Turner et al., 2012(Turner et al., , 2013)).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Turner et al., 2012 source
The Outgroup Attitudes section measures willingness to talk to and spend time with overweight people. The Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Components of Outgroup Attitudes section (p. 8) reports stronger approach tendencies after nostalgic reflection than in the control condition. The finding concerns contact with overweight people specifically. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Partly supportedcites Turner et al., 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Outgroup Attitude section reports that nostalgic recall improved attitudes toward an outgroup, and the paper studies this effect for people with mental illness. It does not report strengthened intentions for future intergroup contact; the Coda discusses improved face-to-face encounters only as a possibility. The indexed passages provide no page number for these sections. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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In the paper
“reduce mortality risk (Hill & Turiano, 2014)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Could not verifycites Hill & Turiano, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report that greater purpose in life predicted lower mortality risk over 14 years. The supplied passages and searches for nostalgia and nostalgic memories found no passage addressing whether nostalgia affects mortality risk. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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In the paper
“The effect of nostalgia on optimism is mediated by social connectedness and ensuing selfesteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.2. Coda
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al. (2013) source
The Results and Discussion (p. 18) report a significant indirect effect along the sequence nostalgia → social connectedness → self-esteem → optimism. The Summary and Implications (p. 21) likewise states that nostalgia fostered social connectedness, which lifted self-esteem and then heightened optimism. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Here, preliminary findings indicate that collective nostalgia promotes collective prosociality (e.g., involvement in fundraising activities; Wildschut et al., 2014).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Study 2 reports that collective nostalgia increased intentions to support the ingroup, measured by willingness to volunteer for a university publicity campaign (Study 2; Method). That supports the broader point about collective prosociality, but the paper does not report involvement in fundraising activities; it measures intentions rather than actual participation. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014) findings indicate that individuals across a range of cultures share strikingly similar conceptions of nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014) source
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- Rests on an assumption: University students are representative of their cultures for lay conceptions of nostalgia.
In the paper
“Nostalgia is universally regarded as an emotion, especially one of longing.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014) source
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- Rests on an assumption: University students are representative of their cultures for lay conceptions of nostalgia.
In the paper
“Participants in the centralprototype condition reported higher self-esteem (i.e.,”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.1 Positive self-attribute activation
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7 source
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“We have also reported that nostalgic narratives encompass agency themes (e.g., competence, success, power; Abeyta et al., 2014), which can be conceptualized as proxies to self-esteem (Wojciszke, Baryła, Parzuchowski, Szymkow-Sudziarska, & Abele, 2011).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1 Self-positivity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al., 2014 source
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“The results were consistent with the hypothesis.Nostalgia boosts selfpositivity.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.1 Positive self-attribute activation
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 1 source
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“Higher levels of scent-evoked nostalgia predicted higher levels of state self-esteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.2 Self-esteem
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- Not matchedcites Reid et al., 2014
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In the paper
“Although we have successfully elicited nostalgia in controlled settings through music, song lyrics, or scents, we have equally successfully and most frequently induced the emotion by relying on the ERT (Appendix B).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
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“We (Hepper et al., 2012, Studies 1 and 2) found that the central features of the nostalgia prototype included growthdenoting words (e.g., change, desire, future).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al., 2012, Studies 1 and 2 source
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In the paper
“We tested the hypothesis that nostalgia instils meaning in six studies.”
- Also stated in: § 4.2.2 Nostalgic engagement instills meaning · plain
“Nostalgia helps find and sustain meaning.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2.2 Nostalgic engagement instills meaning
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In the paper
“Participants who had nostalgized expressed stronger empathy than those who had recalled an ordinary event.”
- Also stated in: § 4.3.1.4 Being empathetic · plain
“In sum, nostalgia increases empathy.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.1.4 Being empathetic
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- Not matchedcites Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012
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In the paper
“Nostalgic events instilled a stronger sense of meaning than desired future events.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2.2 Nostalgic engagement instills meaning
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2012 source
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“Participants in the nostalgic-event (as opposed to the ordinary-event and positive-event) condition reported a stronger sense of authenticity: they stated that the event they described reflected”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stephan et al., 2012, Study 2 source
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“Higher levels of scent-evoked nostalgia predicted greater levels of optimism.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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- Not matchedcites Reid et al., 2014
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“Results from a sample of US undergraduates documented that nostalgic engagement decreases search for meaning to a greater degree than pondering a positive past event (Routledge et al., 2012, Experiment 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2.2 Nostalgic engagement instills meaning
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2012 source
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“Taken together, these results indicate that trait nostalgia is positively related to presence of meaning.”
- Also stated in: § 4.2.1 Trait nostalgia is linked to meaning · plain
“The more nostalgic a song made participants feel, the more meaningful their life seemed to be.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2.1 Trait nostalgia is linked to meaning
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011 source
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In the paper
“As hypothesized, then, social connectedness mediated the effect of music-evoked nostalgia on meaning: Nostalgia instilled meaning through its capacity to foster social connectedness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.2 Nostalgia-elicited sociality and the existential function of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011 source
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“Nostalgia also strengthens charitable intentions (Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012, Study 1).”
- Also stated in: § 4.3.2.1.2 Charitable intentions · plain
“Participants in the nostalgia (vs.control) condition expressed stronger volunteerism and donation intentions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.2 Charitable intentions
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- Not matchedcites Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012
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In the paper
“Social connectedness mediated the effect of nostalgia on meaning: Nostalgia instilled meaning through its capacity to foster social connectedness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.2 Nostalgia-elicited sociality and the existential function of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011 source
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“Participants in the nostalgia condition donated more money than those in the control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.2.3 Monetary donations
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012
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“In turn, nostalgia (measured or manipulated) alleviated the impact of threat by bolstering an opponent process.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Importantly, the functional benefits of nostalgia generalize cross-culturally.These benefits were reported by participants in China, Ireland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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In the paper
“That is, nostalgia curtailed the influence of avoidance motivation on approach motivation”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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“buttressed the self from threat”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Colder temperatures were linked to, or yielded, higher nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“However, resilience moderated the relation between loneliness and nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.1 Resilience
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In the paper
“Participants reported higher nostalgia under cold than under normal or hot temperatures.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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In the paper
“Average daily temperature was negatively associated with daily nostalgia: cold temperatures were linked to higher levels of nostalgia (t-to-r transformation: t[550] ¼ À 2.17, r ¼ À0.09).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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In the paper
“repaired interpersonal isolation”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Search for meaning, in turn, predicted stronger or more frequent nostalgic engagement.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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In the paper
“Importantly, search for meaning mediated the effect of boredom on nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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“We replicated the prior findings (i.e., suppressor situation; Paulhus et al., 2004), demonstrating directionally opposite causal effects of loneliness on nostalgia and perceived social support.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.2 Loneliness, nostalgia, and social support
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Paulhus et al., 2004 source
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In the paper
“relieved boredom by reestablishing a sense of meaning”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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“In a developmental investigation of nostalgia (Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014), well-being evinced a more positive age-related trajectory for individuals high (than low) on trait nostalgia (Study 1).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014 source
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In the paper
“Consistent with our hypothesis, nostalgics (compared to controls) kept their dominant hand immersed longer in a water bath maintained at 4 C.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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In the paper
“diminished stress in taxing circumstances”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Finally, nostalgia strengthened tolerance to the sensation of cold.”
- Also stated in: § 5.2.5 Physical threat · plain
“Consistent with our hypothesis, nostalgics (compared to controls) kept their dominant hand immersed longer in a water bath maintained at 4 C.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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“assuaged the anxiety accompanying mortality awareness”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Regardless of induction task, participants in the high-boredom condition reported greater levels of state nostalgia (measured with three items-e.g.,”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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In the paper
“Low (but not high) avoidants evinced an association between perceived lack of social support and nostalgia frequency.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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In the paper
“reduced defensive responding to meaninglessness”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Higher levels of music-evoked nostalgia predicted greater perceived physical warmth.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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In the paper
“Noxious stimuli were as general as avoidance motivation and as specific as self-threat (i.e., negative performance feedback), existential threat (i.e., meaninglessness or mortality awareness), social threat (i.e., loneliness or social exclusion), and well-being threat (i.e., stress or boredom).All these stimuli increased felt nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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In the paper
“Trait boredom was associated with greater trait search for meaning and nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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In the paper
“Low (compared to high) avoidants stated more frequently that they became nostalgic when they were feeling lonely.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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In the paper
“We (Van Tilburg et al., 2013, Studies 1-3) began by demonstrating that boredom gives way to nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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In the paper
“Nostalgia, in turn, predicted stronger social support in their lives.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.2 Loneliness, nostalgia, and social support
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In the paper
“Nostalgics estimated the room temperature to be higher than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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In the paper
“Specifically, the positive link between loneliness and nostalgia was stronger in participants high (compared to low) on resilience.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.1 Resilience
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“We provided field and experimental evidence for this homeostatic correction of nostalgia (Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Chen, et al., 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Chen, et al., 2012
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In the paper
“Taken together, this research demonstrates that lay conceptions of nostalgia dovetail with formal dictionary definitions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.1 Findings from UK and US samples
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“Holak and Havlena (1998) showed that nostalgia's experiential content was characterized primarily by positive emotions (i.e., warmth, affection, joy, elation, tenderness, serenity, innocence, gratitude), and secondarily by negative emotions (i.e., sadness, irritation, loss, fear).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Holak and Havlena (1998) source
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“The nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives were characterized by more positive than negative feelings, and more feelings in general.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al. (2014) source
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“Nostalgic, compared to ordinary, recollections contained more first-person plural pronouns (e.g.,”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Robertson, Wildschut, & Sedikides (2014)
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“By the beginning of the twentieth century, the position that nostalgia was a psychiatric or psychosomatic disorder was well-entrenched (McCann, 1941).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 2. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NOSTALGIA
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McCann, 1941 source
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“Reid, Green, Wildschut, and Sedikides (2014) demonstrated, in a sample of US undergraduates, that scent-evoked nostalgic memories were characterized by more positive emotions compared to non-nostalgic autobiographical memories or non-nostalgic non-autobiographical memories.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Reid, Green, Wildschut, and Sedikides (2014)
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“Nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives contained more references to all three categories, attesting to the relevance of sociality and identity for the nostalgic experience.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta, Routledge, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2014) source
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“Hofer (1688Hofer ( /1934)), a Swiss medical student who coined in his dissertation the term nostalgia, conceptualized it as a medical or neurological disease.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 2. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NOSTALGIA
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- Not matchedcites Hofer (1688/1934)
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In the paper
“Nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives contained more references to all three categories, attesting to the relevance of sociality and identity for the nostalgic experience.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta, Routledge, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2014) source
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“The nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives were characterized by more positive than negative feelings, and more feelings in general.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al. (2014) source
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In the paper
“By the advent of the millennium, the nostalgia and homesickness literatures had gone their separate ways.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 2. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NOSTALGIA
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Davis, 1979
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Ritchie, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2012 source
- Not matchedcites Wildschut, Sedikides, & Cordaro, 2011
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In the paper
“Nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives contained more references to all three categories, attesting to the relevance of sociality and identity for the nostalgic experience.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta, Routledge, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2014) source
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“Consequently, the person feels sentimental, most often happy but with a tinge of longing.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.1 Findings from UK and US samples
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al. (2012) source
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In the paper
“Nostalgia has a checkered history, but is now rehabilitated as an adaptive psychological resource.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > Abstract
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“Nostalgic, compared to ordinary, recollections contained more first-person plural pronouns (e.g.,”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Robertson, Wildschut, & Sedikides (2014)
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
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A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Nostalgic accounts are, for the most part, redemptive.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.2 Structure of nostalgic accounts
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“Nostalgic (relative to ordinary) recollections entailed high frequency of both abstract terms and concrete terms.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stephan, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2012) source
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In the paper
“Nostalgic episodes are also considered atypically positive.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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In the paper
“Instead, it is generally a resource that individuals recruit in times of distress to help them cope with it.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
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In the paper
“In the case of nostalgic reminiscing, the resulting positive affect of the event may offset its negative affect-an emotional dynamic felt as ambivalence.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“Nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives contained more references to attachment-related content, and fewer references to agency, among low-relative to high-avoidance participants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.3 Individual differences
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al. (2014) source
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“Participants thought that the atypically good television shows of the past were more representative of shows of past decades (spanning their later adolescence and early adulthood) than were the atypically good shows of their current decade.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Morewedge, 2013 source
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“Nostalgic (compared to ordinary) narratives contained more references to attachment-related content, and fewer references to agency, among low-relative to high-avoidance participants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.3 Individual differences
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Abeyta et al. (2014) source
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In the paper
“We posit, in particular, that nostalgia serves three vital intrapersonal and interpersonal functions: self-oriented, existential, and social.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
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“Participants in Morewedge's experiments similarly considered the quality of television shows of their late adolescence and early adulthood as superior to that of the current shows, with show quality being essentially controlled for.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Morewedge, 2013 source
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“Nostalgic (relative to ordinary) recollections entailed high frequency of both abstract terms and concrete terms.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stephan, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2012) source
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“Finally, nostalgia is experienced in many cultures across five continents (Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.5 Prevalence of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014 source
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“Morewedge identified the mechanism underlying these preferences as the atypical representativeness of past shows.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Morewedge, 2013 source
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In the paper
“As one might expect from their redemptive structure, nostalgic episodes are positively valenced.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“consumers show preferences for products (e.g., actors, film, television shows, music) that were popular during their late adolescence and early adulthood (Holbrook & Schindler, 1996)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Holbrook & Schindler, 1996 source
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“the higher participants score on trait nostalgia (as measured by Batcho's [1995] Nostalgia Inventory described below), the chronic tendency to engage in nostalgic reflection and to find such engagement personally important, the more they rate their past favorably (Batcho, 1998) and report positive childhood experiences (Batcho, 2013b).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“nostalgia is experienced not only among adults of all ages (in UK and US samples; Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014;Routledge et al., 2011) but also among older children and teenagers (in Chinese samples; Zhou et al., 2008).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.5 Prevalence of nostalgia
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“It entails a redemption rather than contamination trajectory.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.3. Summary
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“Stated differently, the positive affect of an event lasts longer than its negative affect.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“Once again, nostalgic (compared to ordinary or positive) recollections contained more abstract construal and also more concrete construal that linked the past with the present.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Stephan et al. (2012) source
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“the higher participants score on trait nostalgia (as measured by Batcho's [1995] Nostalgia Inventory described below), the chronic tendency to engage in nostalgic reflection and to find such engagement personally important, the more they rate their past favorably (Batcho, 1998) and report positive childhood experiences (Batcho, 2013b).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“Once again, nostalgic (compared to ordinary or positive) recollections contained more abstract construal and also more concrete construal that linked the past with the present.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.2 Experimental inductions of nostalgia and ensuing narrative analysis
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“Notably, redemption (compared to contamination) trajectories in life narratives are more strongly related to well-being and improved health (Dunlop & Tracy, 2013;McAdams & McLean, 2013)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.2 Structure of nostalgic accounts
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“In all, nostalgia strengthens perceptions of psychological growth.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not matchedcites Baldwin, Biernat, and Landau (2014)
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“We submit that nostalgia constitutes an indirect strategy for sustaining sociality.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3. Sociality function
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“Further, the effects of nostalgia on growth-related self-perceptions and behavioral intentions were mediated by self-esteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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“When nostalgizing, individuals retrieve positivity accumulated from their past to boost their current selfesteem and, as a result, they feel optimistic about their future.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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“We endorsed the view that nostalgia fulfils an existential function.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2. Existential function
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge, Sedikides, et al., 2013 source
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“Nostalgic accounts entail psychological growth, defined as”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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“Further, we proposed that it does so, in part, by serving as a source of meaning in life (Routledge, Sedikides, et al., 2013;Sedikides et al., 2004).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.2. Existential function
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“Nostalgic narratives and the nostalgic experience are rich in social themes (Abeyta et al., 2014;Batcho et al., 2008;Hepper et al., 2012;Holak & Havlena, 1992;Robertson et al., 2014;Wildschut et al., 2006, Studies 1 and 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3. Sociality function
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“our research shows that nostalgia increases self-esteem above and beyond pertinent control conditions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.2 Self-esteem
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“Taken together, these findings establish that nostalgia elevates selfesteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.2 Self-esteem
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“Participants in the nostalgic (vs.ordinary) event condition reported greater growth-related self-perceptions (i.e., self-expansion, curiosity, inclination toward new experiences; Kashdan et al., 2009) and stronger growth-related behavioral intentions (i.e., to engage in novel, self-expansive activities; Luke, Sedikides, & Carnelley, 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baldwin and Landau, 2014 source
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“Patients with difficulty in remembering past events also have difficulty imagining new experiences (Hassabis, Kumaran, Vann, & Maguire, 2007;Klein, Loftus, & Kihlstrom, 2002) or anticipating their future in detail (Addis, Sacchetti, Ally, Budson, & Schacter, 2009;Brown, Dorfman, Marmar, & Bryant, 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
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“It follows from this literature that, if nostalgic recollection is positive, this positivity may be projected onto the future.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
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“Indeed, self-esteem is positively associated with optimism (Chemers, Watson, & May, 2000;Ma ¨kikangas, Kinnunen, & Feldt, 2004), although the two constructs are sufficiently distinct to warrant independent treatment.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Chemers, Watson, & May, 2000 source
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“Recollection and projection into the future are interdependent ( Johnson & Sherman, 1990).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Johnson & Sherman, 1990
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“Davis (1977, p. 420) prophetically argued that nostalgia spawns a buoyant outlook on the future”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Davis, 1977 source
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“Participants in the nostalgic (vs.ordinary) event condition reported greater growth-related self-perceptions (i.e., self-expansion, curiosity, inclination toward new experiences; Kashdan et al., 2009) and stronger growth-related behavioral intentions (i.e., to engage in novel, self-expansive activities; Luke, Sedikides, & Carnelley, 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baldwin and Landau, 2014 source
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“some past experiences predict sanguinity in decision-making (Albarracin & Wyer, 2000) and in close relationships (Carnelley & Janoff-Bulman, 1992).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Carnelley & Janoff-Bulman, 1992 source
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“However, the utility of nostalgia for psychological functioning and well-being is moderated by individual differences.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4 Individual differences moderate the psychological benefits
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“However, across all studies tested, the hypothesized sequence showed the best model fit.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.3 A note on the effects of nostalgia-elicited sociality
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“We build on the relevance of sociality by arguing that it underpins, at least in part, the selforiented and existential functions of nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3 Nostalgia-elicited sociality mediates other functions of nostalgia
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“Taken together, the self-positivity function of nostalgia is stronger among high than low narcissists.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.1 Narcissism
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“That nostalgia is a deeply social emotion is underlined by findings that nostalgia-elicited sociality mediates the self-positivity function (i.e., increases in self-esteem and optimism) and the existential function (i.e., increases in meaning in life).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“promotes prosocial behavior (physical proximity, helping, monetary donations).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Nostalgia rendered low-avoidance persons more satisfied with their relationships and more desirous of a relationship.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Juhl, Sand, and Routledge (2012) source
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“It increases perceptions of life as meaningful.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Taken together with experimental studies utilizing causal chain approaches to establishing mediation (Spencer, Zanna, & Fong, 2005), the available data support theoretically derived accounts of how nostalgia impacts the cognitive, affective, and behavioral systems.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.3 A note on the effects of nostalgia-elicited sociality
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Spencer, Zanna, & Fong, 2005 source
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“It raises self-positivity (i.e., positive self-attribute activation, self-esteem) and facilitates perceptions of a positive future (i.e., optimism, psychological growth).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Nostalgia rendered low-avoidance persons more satisfied with their relationships and more desirous of a relationship.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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“This conclusion is consistent with findings that low-(compared to high) avoidants rely more on social relationships to regulate distress (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2008).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Mikulincer & Shaver, 2008
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“In all, nostalgia is more socially beneficial to individuals who are low (rather than high) on attachment avoidance.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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“Regardless, we argue that nostalgia, as an approach-oriented emotion, facilitates coping at hard times (Routledge, Wildschut, et al., 2013;Sedikides et al., 2009).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4 Individual differences moderate the psychological benefits
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“Nostalgia increased perceived competence to provide social support in low (compared to high) avoidants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 5 source
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“Nostalgia has motivational implications: It strengthens approach motivation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Further, as our experimental research indicates, nostalgia serves key psychological functions (self-oriented, existential, sociality) that have downstream consequences for psychological well-being.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4 Individual differences moderate the psychological benefits
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“Nostalgia constitutes a subtle, noninvasive way to encourage donations.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.2.3 Monetary donations
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ackerman-Rose, 1982 source
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“reinforces socially oriented action tendencies (interpersonal competence, charitable intentions, reduced desire for money, intergroup contact intentions)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“It strengthens social connectedness (feeling loved, protected, connected to others, and trusting of others; experiencing lower attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance; feeling socially supported; being empathetic to others)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“It raises self-positivity (i.e., positive self-attribute activation, self-esteem) and facilitates perceptions of a positive future (i.e., optimism, psychological growth).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Low-avoidants are more capable of harnessing nostalgia as a source of sociality.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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“Nostalgia buffered against loss in meaning.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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“Baldwin et al. (2014) also demonstrated that nostalgia buffers against threats to the intrinsic (i.e., authentic) self.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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“Notably, the indirect effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation via nostalgia remained significant after controlling for the Big Five traits (assessed with the revised Ten Item Personality Inventory; Denissen et al., 2008).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Denissen et al., 2008 source
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“Nostalgia buttressed the self, lending individuals the fortitude to accept responsibility for failure and curtail defensiveness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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“Loneliness also engenders nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.1 Loneliness, nostalgia, and sociality
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“Participants in the meaning-threat condition reported higher levels of nostalgia than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011, Study 3 source
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“High levels of trait nostalgia prevented death cognitions from becoming death anxiety.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.4 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated death anxiety
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“self-sacrifice is relatively unappealing to persons who attain meaning from nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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“High nostalgics were less defensive of their national identity.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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“Nostalgia curbed defensiveness to meaning threat.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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“Accordingly, the negative direct influence of the noxious stimulus is attenuated or counteracted by its positive indirect influence via nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5. HOW NOSTALGIA WORKS
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“When exposed to meaning threat, nostalgics derogated the author and the essay less than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011, Study 4 source
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“When mortality awareness heightens the need for meaning, the more individuals reflect nostalgically on their past, the more meaningful they perceive their lives to be at the present.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.2 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to meaning
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“Overall, participants took less personal responsibility for failure than success, exhibiting the typical defensive or self-serving attributional pattern (Campbell & Sedikides, 1999).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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“Nostalgia disrupted the positive association between death-thought accessibility and religious self-sacrifice.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2014, Study 2 source
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“In the failure (but not success) condition, nostalgics assumed more personal responsibility than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 2 source
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“However, high nostalgics responded equally favorably to the essay in the two conditions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Juhl et al., 2010, Study 1 source
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“Nostalgia buffers death awareness by suppressing death cognitions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.3 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated activation of death cognitions
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“Negative performance feedback presents a threat to the self (Sedikides, 2012).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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- Not matchedcites Sedikides, 2012
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“Participants in the high (vs.low) loneliness condition reported higher levels of nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.1 Loneliness, nostalgia, and sociality
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- Not matchedcites Wildschut et al., Study 4
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“Nostalgia was spontaneously triggered in response to self-expression that was experimentally blocked, that is, when participants imagined situations where it was virtually impossible for them to feel like their real self (Study 5).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baldwin et al. (2014) source
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“High nostalgics were less defensive of their religious identity.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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“In a study implementing a similar design, participants high on trait nostalgia spontaneously experienced heightened levels of state nostalgia in response to death reminders ( Juhl et al., 2010, Study 3).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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“That is, we obtained evidence for nostalgia's self-positivity, existential, and sociality functions even when controlling for the effect of nostalgia on positive affect, if any.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Within the Surrealist art condition, nostalgics reported a higher sense of meaning than controls.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2012, Study 3 source
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“Low, but not high, nostalgics were more inclined toward nationalistic sacrifice in the mortality salience than control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2014, Study 1 source
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“Meaninglessness evokes nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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“Nostalgia, then, sets up cognitive (i.e., self-positivity) barricades, both explicit and implicit, upon which threats to self may be deflected.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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“Low nostalgics responded more unfavorably (i.e., defensively) to the essay in the mortality salience than control condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Juhl et al., 2010, Study 1 source
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“The Surrealist (but not representational) painting undermined sense of meaning.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.1 Meaninglessness
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2012, Study 3 source
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“Nostalgia reduced the need to invest in collective identity as a response to death reminders.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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“At an implicit level, nostalgia increases the cognitive accessibility of positive self-attributes (Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 1).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 1 source
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“Nostalgia protects from death anxiety.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.4 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated death anxiety
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“Finally, and most importantly, nostalgia has unique effects above and beyond positive affect or negative affect.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Low (compared to high) avoidants perceive others as available or responsive and depend on them for distress regulation (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2008) or social support (Collins & Feeney, 2000).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Mikulincer & Shaver, 2008
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Collins & Feeney, 2000 source
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“Stated otherwise, highly resilient persons are more likely or able to recruit nostalgia when feeling lonely.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.1 Resilience
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“Thus, nostalgia shields well-being from the foreboding sense of limited time horizons.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Sentimental longing is meaningful, not meaningless; nostalgia is a necessity, not a luxury; and nostalgia occurs frequently, not rarely.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6. NOSTALGIA'S FUTURE
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“Our research has further documented that nostalgia is an approach emotion that facilitates optimal functioning of the affective, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral systems.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Nostalgia affords individuals who lack meaning in life the fortitude to maintain equanimity in stressful circumstances.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.1 Stress
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“For example, nostalgia has been labeled a”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kaplan, 1987
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Davis, 1977 source
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“To bring Dostoyesky (2007) into the forum, nostalgizing even on a single positive and atypical event-even perhaps originating in a relatively recent period in one's life-can reap psychological benefits.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.1 Happy childhood memories as a prerequisite for nostalgia
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- Not matchedcites Dostoyesky (2007)
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“Low-avoidants were better able to utilize nostalgia when confronted with social exclusion.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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“Nostalgizing on the basis of this store will likely confer beneficial outcomes.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.1 Happy childhood memories as a prerequisite for nostalgia
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“It contributes to a sociality function, as it engenders social connectedness (being loved, protected, connected to others, trusting of others), social support, empathy, and lower attachment anxiety or avoidance.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Nostalgia plays a crucial role in the maintenance of psychological and physiological homeostasis.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Although the available research speaks to the overall tendency for nostalgia to play a key role in maintaining equanimity in response to threat, there are individual differences in the adoption of this strategy as well as in its effectiveness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3 Individual differences
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“Individuals with chronic meaning deficits are particularly vulnerable to experiencing stress in challenging circumstances (Park & Folkman, 1997).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.1 Stress
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Park & Folkman, 1997 source
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“In some instances, certain reflections may even create additional psychological adversity (e.g., homesick first-year university students who wish they were back in high school; Iyer & Jetten, 2011).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.1 Happy childhood memories as a prerequisite for nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Iyer & Jetten, 2011 source
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“We have documented that nostalgia counteracts various aversive psychological states, such as those triggered by interpersonal isolation or meaninglessness, by bolstering their opposing process, such as sociality or meaningfulness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“The presence and functional benefits of nostalgia are more prevalent than previously thought.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Indeed, nostalgia acts as a catalyst for successful aging.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“However, the most frequent and potent facilitator of nostalgia is likely social exchange that takes place over time, entails repetition, and can be intense or arousing.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“It facilitates an existential function, as it adds meaning to life.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Low-avoidants relied on nostalgia to counter deficiencies in their relational network.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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“We reasoned that nostalgia, given its representation of the self in a felicitous state, is well-suited to engage the”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“They regulated relational deficiencies more effectively by recruiting nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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“At the same time, nostalgia evidences unique affective and self-oriented signatures that do not appear to be shared by other self-affirming exercises.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“We have shown that nostalgia increases self-positivity, strengthens meaningfulness, fosters sociality, and assuages existential anxiety, but these benefits may be only transient.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“Also, when individuals feel momentarily efficacious, replete with meaningfulness, and socially competent, they may engage in action likely to have longlasting ramifications.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“We have shown that nostalgia increases self-positivity, strengthens meaningfulness, fosters sociality, and assuages existential anxiety, but these benefits may be only transient.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“nostalgia is likely to aid physical health (cf.Kok et al., 2003)”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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In the paper
“For example, self-positivity may result in optimistic decision-making or energetic problem-solving (Cheung et al., 2013), meaningfulness may form the basis for health-related behavior such as dieting (McCabe, Vail, Arndt, & Goldenberg, 2013), and interpersonal competence may provide the scaffolding for building successful social relationships (Buhrmester, 1990).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Buhrmester, 1990 source
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“In fact, if individuals can harvest even a single recollection, as Dostoyesky (2007) suggested, repeatedly throughout life to (re)generate psychological benefits, the positive consequences of nostalgia can last for a lifetime.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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- Not matchedcites Dostoyesky (2007)
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“We have shown that nostalgia increases self-positivity, strengthens meaningfulness, fosters sociality, and assuages existential anxiety, but these benefits may be only transient.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“Indeed, nostalgia may be considered a type of self-affirmation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“Nostalgia has momentary (Routledge, Wildschut, et al., 2013) and also long-term (Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014) implications for psychological health.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge, Wildschut, et al., 2013 source
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“We argued that nostalgia serves a key homeostatic role-both physiological and psychologicalunder harsh environmental circumstances, such as cold or starvation.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“For starters, nostalgia is a source of well-being (Baldwin et al., 2014), especially among the elderly (Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“Remembering nostalgically cultural-life-scripts of personal significance confers psychological benefits.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.2. Coda
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“Nostalgia has momentary (Routledge, Wildschut, et al., 2013) and also long-term (Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014) implications for psychological health.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“For example, self-positivity may result in optimistic decision-making or energetic problem-solving (Cheung et al., 2013), meaningfulness may form the basis for health-related behavior such as dieting (McCabe, Vail, Arndt, & Goldenberg, 2013), and interpersonal competence may provide the scaffolding for building successful social relationships (Buhrmester, 1990).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McCabe, Vail, Arndt, & Goldenberg, 2013 source
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“We have shown that nostalgia increases self-positivity, strengthens meaningfulness, fosters sociality, and assuages existential anxiety, but these benefits may be only transient.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“Finally, the affective signature of nostalgic accounts validated that the emotion is ambivalent, but more positive than negative.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
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- Supportedcites Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006 source
In the Affective signature passages (pp. 10 and 14), nostalgic narratives contained both positive and negative feelings, with significantly more positive than negative affect. The Ambivalence passage (pp. 14–15) describes the resulting affective ambivalence as mild. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The self was featured prominently in the nostalgic account and assumed a protagonistic role in most of them.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.1.1 Narrative analyses
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, & Routledge, 2006 source
The Content of Nostalgic Experience section reports that the self was a central character in almost all narratives and appeared in a major role more often than in any other role. The Summary of Findings likewise says that narratives in both studies typically featured the self as central character. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Examples of internal triggers are discomforting states such as negative affect (Barrett et al., 2010;Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 3), social exclusion (Seehusen et al., 2013, Studies 3 and 4;Wildschut, Sedikides, Routledge, Arndt, & Cordaro, 2010, Study 3), loneliness (Wildschut et al., Study 4;Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 1;Zhou, Sedikides, Wildschut, & Gao, 2008, Study 4), meaninglessness (R”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.4 Triggers of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Barrett et al., 2010 source
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 3 source
The Trigger Question section reports that Study 3 found higher nostalgia after a negative-mood manipulation, while Study 4 found higher nostalgia in the high-loneliness condition. These are the two triggers for which the citing sentence invokes this paper; the other listed triggers have separate citations. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Participants in the nostalgic-lyrics condition evinced higher selfesteem (assessed with the four items of Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7) than those in the control-lyrics condition.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.1.2 Self-esteem
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 4 source
Study 4’s Method (p. 16) identifies the participants as University of Southampton undergraduates and says they read nostalgic or control lyrics. The Results and Discussion (p. 17) report significantly higher self-esteem in the nostalgic-lyrics condition. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Among UK undergraduates and adults aged 18-91, nostalgia is experienced at least once a week and modally three times a week (Hepper, Robertson, Wildschut, Sedikides, & Routledge, 2014, Study 1;Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.5 Prevalence of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Robertson, Wildschut, Sedikides, & Routledge, 2014, Study 1 source
- Partly supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 2 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Frequency of Nostalgia section reports that 79% of participants experienced nostalgia at least once a week; the modal response was three or four times a week, not precisely three. The Methods identify this paper’s participants as University of Southampton undergraduates. The sentence also cites Hepper et al. for the broader age range, which this verdict does not assess. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Nostalgia elevated optimism both directly and indirectly via selfesteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 3 source
The Results and Discussion (p. 15) report significant direct and indirect effects of nostalgia on optimism, with the indirect effect operating through increased self-esteem. The passage explicitly states the claim. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“participants influenced by scent-evoked nostalgia felt loved and connected to loved ones (Reid et al., 2014).”
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“participants in the nostalgic-event condition reported feeling loved and protected to a greater degree than those in the ordinary-event condition (Wildschut et al., 2006, Study 5).”
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“participants who reflected on an event characterized by central nostalgia features felt more loved, protected, connected to loved ones, and trustful of others than those who reflected on an event characterized by peripheral nostalgia features (Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.1.1 Feeling loved, protected, connected to others, and trusting of others
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- Not matchedcites Reid et al., 2014
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- Partly supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Manipulation Check section (p. 30) says Study 5 measured feeling “loved” and “protected,” and the Functions results (p. 31) report higher social-bonding scores after recalling a nostalgic rather than an ordinary event. The paper also describes strengthened social bonds, but these passages do not establish increased trust in others or an effect specifically from scent-evoked nostalgia. The supplied citing sentence attributes the scent-evoked finding to Reid et al. (2014), not to this source. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al., 2012 source
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“Second, a nostalgia condition produces stronger positive affect than a control condition (Cheung et al., 2013, Study 2 and 4;Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7;Lasaleta et al., 2014, Experiment 4;Stephan et al., 2012;Wildschut et al., 2006, Studies 5-7;Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012, Study 1; see also Batcho, 2013b;Verplanken, 2012), although sometimes the two conditions do not differ (”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 2 and 4 source
The Results and Discussion report higher positive affect in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition in Study 2 (p. 12) and Study 4 (p. 17), the two studies named in the citation. The paper also reports no significant difference in Study 3 (p. 14), consistent with the sentence’s qualification. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al., 2012, Study 7 source
- Supportedcites Wildschut et al., 2006, Studies 5-7 source
The Functions results (pp. 31, 34) report significantly higher positive affect in the nostalgia condition than in the control condition in Studies 5 and 6. These findings support the part of the sentence for which Wildschut et al. is cited. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Nostalgia is positively linked with, and stimulates, approach motivation (Stephan et al., 2014).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4 Individual differences moderate the psychological benefits
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- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that nostalgia was positively associated with approach motivation in Studies 1–2 and that experimentally induced nostalgia increased approach motivation in Study 3. Page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Mediational analyses showed that nostalgia nurtured social connectedness, which in turn raised self-esteem, which subsequently increased optimism (Figure 1).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.1 Nostalgia-elicited sociality and the self-oriented function of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013 source
The Summary and Implications of the Findings (p. 21) reports that Study 4 established the sequence: nostalgia fostered social connectedness, which lifted self-esteem and then heightened optimism. This directly supports the attributed mediational finding. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Third, although nostalgia increases positive affect, it generally does not decrease negative affect, compared to control (Cheung et al., 2013, Study 1;Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 4).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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- Partly supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013, Study 1 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Study 1’s Results and Discussion (p. 10) show virtually identical negative-affect ratings in the nostalgia and control conditions, supporting the claim that nostalgia did not decrease negative affect in that study. Positive affect was only marginally higher (p = .07), so Study 1 does not firmly establish the claimed increase. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 4 source
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“Statistically speaking, although the direct effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation was negative, the indirect effect of avoidance motivation on approach motivation via nostalgia was positive (suppressor situation; Paulhus, Robins, Trzesniewski, & Tracy, 2004).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.1. Testing the full model in a general domain: Approach and avoidance motivation
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- Supportedcites Stephan et al., 2014 source
The General Discussion reports that, in Studies 1–2, avoidance motivation had a negative link with approach motivation when nostalgia was included, while the indirect effect via nostalgia was positive and significant. Figure 1 also labels the direct path as negative and the indirect path as positive. The supplied passages do not give page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Lonely participants perceived little social support, but they were also prone to nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.2 Loneliness, nostalgia, and social support
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- Supportedcites Zhou et al., 2008, Study 1 source
The Results and Discussion report that participants in the high-loneliness condition perceived less social support and felt more nostalgic than those in the low-loneliness condition. The General Discussion likewise states that loneliness is associated with, or causes, decreased perceived social support and increased nostalgia. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“and nostalgia renders a generalized view of self (i.e., selfesteem) more positive and fosters perceptions of psychological growth (Baldwin & Landau, 2014;Cheung et al., 2013;Wildschut et al., Study 5).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.1 Self-threat
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baldwin & Landau, 2014 source
- Partly supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Summary and Implications of the Findings (p. 21) reports that Studies 3 and 4 found nostalgia raised self-esteem. The passages describe heightened optimism, but do not establish that nostalgia fosters perceptions of psychological growth; a search for psychological and personal growth found no supporting passage. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“In turn, nostalgia augmented their perceptions of social support, thereby countering the negative impact of loneliness.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.2 Loneliness, nostalgia, and social support
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- Supportedcites Zhou et al., 2008, Study 1 source
The General Discussion states that nostalgia magnifies perceptions of social support and thereby thwarts the effect of loneliness. The Results and Discussion also report that nostalgia increased perceived social support relative to a control condition. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“For example, self-positivity may result in optimistic decision-making or energetic problem-solving (Cheung et al., 2013), meaningfulness may form the basis for health-related behavior such as dieting (McCabe, Vail, Arndt, & Goldenberg, 2013), and interpersonal competence may provide the scaffolding for building successful social relationships (Buhrmester, 1990).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Cheung et al., 2013 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion (p. 15) report that nostalgia increased optimism partly through increased self-esteem, supporting a link between self-positivity and optimism. Limitations and Broader Considerations (p. 23) suggests this optimism could foster more engaged coping, but the paper does not establish optimistic decision-making or energetic problem-solving specifically. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“These memories have personal relevance or involve relationships with others.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014) source
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- Rests on an assumption: The 18 countries sampled are representative of all cultures, allowing generalization to panculturality.
- Rests on an assumption: University students are representative of their cultures for lay conceptions of nostalgia.
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“It entails remembering or reminiscing about fond memories from the past.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014) source
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- Rests on an assumption: The 18 countries sampled are representative of all cultures, allowing generalization to panculturality.
- Rests on an assumption: University students are representative of their cultures for lay conceptions of nostalgia.
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“They found that nostalgia elevated the accessibility of the intrinsic self-concept, but not the accessibility of the mundane (e.g., everyday) self-concept (Study 3).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not matchedcites Baldwin, Biernat, and Landau (2014)
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“Nostalgic participants gave away more money, but not time, than control participants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.3 Desire for money
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lasaleta, Sedikides, & Vohs, 2014 source
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“Nostalgia was positively related to adaptive coping strategies (e.g., seeking emotional social support, expressing emotions, planning) and was unrelated to maladaptive coping strategies (i.e., denial, behavioral disengagement, substance abuse).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4 Individual differences moderate the psychological benefits
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- Not matchedcites Batcho, 2013b
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“In all three studies, empathy, but not distress, mediated the effect of nostalgia on charitable intentions.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.2 Charitable intentions
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- Not matchedcites Zhou, Wildschut, Sedikides, Shi, et al., 2012
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“In conclusion, nostalgia reduces the desire for money, and it does so by fostering social connectedness (see also Gilovich & Kumar, in press).”
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“The hypothesis was also confirmed.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.2.1.3 Desire for money
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lasaleta et al., 2014 source
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“Boredom increased the search for meaning and also raised nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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“Social exclusion (i.e., future alone) compared to social inclusion (i.e., future belonging) increased nostalgia among low-avoidance, but not among highavoidance, participants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.2 Attachment avoidance
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“Nostalgia is experienced with a modal frequency of three times a week (in a UK sample), and is found across cultures.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Boredom led to nostalgia: Bored (vs.control) participants considered their memories more nostalgic and felt more nostalgic.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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“Lonely participants reported lacking in social support but also felt nostalgic.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.2 Loneliness, nostalgia, and social support
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“Nostalgia lowered stress in participants with meaning deficits, but not in those with meaning surfeits (Figure 3).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.1 Stress
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“Increased nostalgia, in turn, instilled meaningfulness, which contributed to meaning reestablishment (i.e., presence of meaning in their lives).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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“As before, the direct effect of loneliness was to decrease perceptions of social support, and its indirect effect was to augment perceptions of social support via nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.3.1 Resilience
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“Also, nostalgia was linked to, and produced, the perception of warmth.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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“Although an experimental induction of limited time perspective decreased well-being among young adults who recalled an ordinary life event, this induction left wellbeing intact among young adults who recalled a nostalgic event (Study 2).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Finally, nostalgia and its benefits are prevalent across age.Nostalgia is experienced by children and teenagers (in a Chinese sample), and by adults of all ages (18-91 in a UK sample).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“The Southampton Nostalgia Scale correlated positively with both meaning scales.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.2. Coda
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“The person often sees the event through rose-colored glasses, misses that time or relationship, and may even long to return to the past.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.1 Findings from UK and US samples
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“The Hepper et al. (2012) findings indicate that laypersons view nostalgia as a predominantly positive, social, and past-oriented emotion.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.1 Findings from UK and US samples
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“At present, nostalgia is considered an emotion, and a predominantly positive one at that.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 2. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON NOSTALGIA
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“In nostalgic yearning, one brings to mind a fond and personally meaningful event, typically involving one's childhood or a close relationship.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.1 Findings from UK and US samples
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hepper et al. (2012) source
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“Taken together, lay conceptions of nostalgia across many cultures converge with both lay conceptions of nostalgia in UK/US and formal definitions of UK/US dictionaries.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
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“Nostalgia is thought to be a past-oriented, self-conscious (i.e., personally meaningful), keenly social, and bittersweet, albeit predominantly positive, emotion.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.1.2.2 Findings from 18 cultures
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“and its ensuing net positive affect may be due to memorial mechanisms that underlie the fading of unpleasantness.”
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“It is predominantly positive, albeit bittersweet, and self-relevant.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.3. Summary
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“Nostalgia is a profoundly social emotion, and, as such, it will be often elicited during social encounters or conversations with close others.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.4 Triggers of nostalgia
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“It is characterized by a highlevel construal pattern, whereby nostalgic (vs.ordinary or positive) memories are retrieved more abstractly and interpreted in a gist-oriented manner.”
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“And it is prevalent in terms of its experiential frequency across ages and likely across cultures.”
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“Its content is considered atypically positive”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.3. Summary
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“Mostly because of the social sharing or rehearsal of the positive affect associated positive autobiographical memories, the negative affect linked with negative autobiographical memories fades faster across time than the positive affect linked with positive autobiographical memories.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Skowronski, Walker, Henderson, & Bond, 2013 source
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“Given that these preference patterns occur irrespective of consumer age, they cannot be attributed to superior product quality.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.3 Valence of nostalgic episodes
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“Nostalgia does not cause physical malady or mental disorder.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4. WHAT NOSTALGIA DOES
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“As we will discuss later, nostalgia serves to counter these discomforting states and restore psychological equilibrium.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.2.4 Triggers of nostalgia
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“Its perceived content-reflecting fond memories intermixed with yearning about one's childhood, close relationships, or a satisfying and atypically positive event-is similar in many countries spanning all continents.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 3.3. Summary
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“First-year university students who focused on the continuity (rather than discontinuity) between their nostalgic recollections and their current self-concept were more enthusiastic about starting their university education, viewed fewer obstacles to their academic progress, and expressed more interested in opportunities during their university years.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.2 Psychological growth
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Iyer and Jetten, 2011, Studies 2 and 3 source
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“some past experiences predict sanguinity in decision-making (Albarracin & Wyer, 2000) and in close relationships (Carnelley & Janoff-Bulman, 1992).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2 Perceptions of a positive future
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Albarracin & Wyer, 2000 source
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“In sum, nostalgia boosts optimism directly and also indirectly by raising self-esteem.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.1.2.1 Optimism
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“We argue that, not only is nostalgia fundamentally social, but it also acts as a well of sociality with downstream consequences.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3. Sociality function
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“Reflecting on a nostalgic (vs.ordinary) event fostered social connectedness among low-avoidance, but not among high-avoidance, participants.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 4 source
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“In conclusion, nostalgia invigorates sociality and, through this, regenerates and sustains meaning.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.3.2 Nostalgia-elicited sociality and the existential function of nostalgia
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“Nostalgia increased subjective vitality in participants with meaning deficits (but not with meaning surfeits).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.3 Perceptions of meaning in life
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2011, Study 5 source
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“The utility of nostalgia is moderated by narcissism, attachment avoidance, and perceptions of meaning in life.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.4. Summary and a note on the relation between nostalgia and in-the-moment affect
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“Nevertheless, low-and high-avoidants are equally likely to benefit from nostalgia in regards self-positivity: reflecting on a nostalgic (vs.ordinary) event raised their self-esteem to a comparable extent.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 4.3.4.2 Attachment avoidance
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Wildschut et al., 2010, Study 4 source
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“We have shown that nostalgia fosters sociality, such as increases in social connectedness (i.e., being loved, protected, connected to others, and trusting of others), empathy, or perceived interpersonal competence, and decreases in attachment avoidance and anxiety.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.1 Loneliness, nostalgia, and sociality
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“Control participants reported greater willingness for religious self-sacrifice when death-thought accessibility was high (compared to low), but for nostalgics death-thought accessibility did not predict greater willingness to self-sacrifice.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.1 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated threat to collective identity
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Routledge et al., 2014, Study 2 source
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“A noxious stimulus or aversive psychological/physiological state will have a negative influence on an outcome (e.g., function), but it will also trigger nostalgia.Nostalgia, in turn, will alleviate this negative influence.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5. HOW NOSTALGIA WORKS
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“Participants in the mortality-salience condition (relative to controls) manifested greater death anxiety, but only if they were low on nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.2.2.4 Nostalgia buffers mortality-instigated death anxiety
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Juhl et al., 2010, Study 2 source
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“These findings are generally consistent with our regulatory model: loneliness evokes nostalgia, which then augments sociality.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.3.1 Loneliness, nostalgia, and sociality
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“These occurrences are recounted with rose-colored glasses, are redemptive, and may be longed for in the midst of sentimentality and joy.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Our regulatory model posits that a noxious stimulus will impact negatively on a psychological outcome (e.g., function) while also triggering nostalgia.In turn, nostalgia will exert a palliative influence, softening the negative impact of the stimulus.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.3. Summary
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“We argue that persons with unhappy childhoods, as well as habitual worriers, can benefit from nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.1 Happy childhood memories as a prerequisite for nostalgia
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“More formally, our research established that nostalgia is a self-conscious, social, mostly positive, and past-oriented emotion that is elicited by a variety of external (e.g., music, song lyrics, smells, tastes, physical coldness) or internal (e.g., negative affect, loneliness, meaninglessness, existential terror, boredom) triggers.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“Sentimental longing is meaningful, not meaningless; nostalgia is a necessity, not a luxury; and nostalgia occurs frequently, not rarely.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6. NOSTALGIA'S FUTURE
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“In addition, these functional benefits are typically obtained regardless of the presence or absence of positive affect, and they generalize across age and gender.”
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“As hypothesized, nostalgia was associated with the bodily sensation of warmth and led to the estimation of higher ambient warmth.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“Arguably, then, our nostalgia manipulations were minimal.Yet, they produced powerful and reliable effects.On that basis, our research may have underestimated the prevalence and functional potency of nostalgia.”
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“As hypothesized, colder temperatures were linked with and contributed to greater nostalgia.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“We have proposed and validated a general regulatory model, which specifies the following cycle.First, a noxious stimulus exerts a negative influence on an outcome (e.g., function).The stimulus can range from avoidance motivation to self-threat (negative performance feedback), existential threat (meaninglessness, mortality awareness), social threat (loneliness), well-being threat (stress, boredom),”
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“Boredom is an unpleasant emotion marked by negative affect, dissatisfaction, anxiety, and a sense of purposelessness (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012a).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.4.2 Boredom
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- Not matchedcites Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012a
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“Nostalgia involves revisiting personally relevant and fond occurrences that highlight gist elements of one's childhood, close relationships, or critical periods in one's lives.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1. Overview
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“In this way, the content of past reflection is important and merits continuing research.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.1 Happy childhood memories as a prerequisite for nostalgia
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“This latter literature suggests that emotions act as homeostatic correctives via two pathways.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“Further, nostalgia provokes socially oriented action tendencies (perceived interpersonal competence, charitable intentions, reduced desire for money, intergroup contact intentions) and prosocial behavior (physical proximity, helping, monetary donations).”
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“If a person reflects back on the negative experiences of childhood, or reflects on their past in a way that primarily reinforces a discontent with the present, we suggest this is a different breed of nostalgia, if nostalgia at all, and beneficial outcomes will be less likely.”
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“Critically, nostalgia-incited sociality mediates the self-oriented and existential functions, while individual differences (narcissism, attachment avoidance, perceptions of meaning) moderate some functions.”
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“Nostalgia facilitates psychological homeostasis, sharing a key attribute with other positive emotions (DeWall & Baumeister, 2007;Manstead, Frijda, & Fischer, 2004).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 5.2.5 Physical threat
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“Nostalgia enables a self-oriented function, as it fosters self-positivity (positive self-attribute activation, self-esteem) and strengthens perceptions of a positive future (optimism, psychological growth).”
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“Sentimental longing is meaningful, not meaningless; nostalgia is a necessity, not a luxury; and nostalgia occurs frequently, not rarely.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6. NOSTALGIA'S FUTURE
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“We propose a broader role of nostalgia, which include its facilitation of physiological homeostasis.”
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“As such, it will likely confer relational advantages.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“Nostalgia is a fundamentally social emotion.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“Both processes feature a key role of the self and engage relational security as a key catalyst of downstream effects.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.2 Nostalgia in the motivational, relational, and behavioral domains
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“Adversity can occur throughout life, and it can be transient even in the case of chronic illness.For example, there is evidence indicating that depressed person differ from nondepressed ones in terms of the frequency of episodes of negative affect rather than the continuity of negative affect (Morrow & Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Morrow & Nolen-Hoeksema, 1990 source
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“Regardless, individuals, for example, can engage in nostalgic reflection when feeling the blues, lacking in meaning, or feeling lonely, when they need optimism for the pursuit of a challenging goal (e.g., in the middle of a difficult exam; Sweeny & Krizan, 2013), or when they strive to overcome their prejudicial reactions (Monteith, Mark, & Ashburn-Nardo, 2010).”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“We have shown that nostalgia increases self-positivity, strengthens meaningfulness, fosters sociality, and assuages existential anxiety, but these benefits may be only transient.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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“it may do so by instantiating meaningfulness”
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“We emphasize that the infusion of nostalgia is not a one-off state of affairs.In fact, individuals can regulate, or can learn to regulate, nostalgic infusion in the face of adversity.”
§ To Nostalgize: Mixing Memory with Affect and Desire > 6.1.1.3 Long-term benefits of nostalgia
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The paper relies on this without support.
The 18 countries sampled are representative of all cultures, allowing generalization to panculturality.
“We (Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014) gauged the equivalence of prototypical conceptions of nostalgia in a range of cultures that spanned 18 countries (e.g., Australia, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Japan, Uganda, Romania, United States) across five continents.”
The paper relies on this without support.
University students are representative of their cultures for lay conceptions of nostalgia.
“We confined our participant recruitment to university students for the purpose of maintaining consistency in sample educational attainment and age (Van de Vijver & Leung, 1997).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Nostalgia is a profoundly social emotion.
“Nostalgia is a profoundly social emotion, and, as such, it will be often elicited during social encounters or conversations with close others.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Findings from the cited samples generalize to the general population.
“Taken together, these findings establish that nostalgia elevates selfesteem.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The content of nostalgic narratives reflects the nature of nostalgic experience.
“Nostalgic accounts are, for the most part, redemptive.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
A longer wait implies stronger willingness to suffer for the gain.
“We assumed that a longer wait implies stronger willingness to suffer for the gain.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Students have a good deal of educational accomplishments, personal milestones, and relational goals to which to look forward.
“Students have a good deal of educational accomplishments (e.g., achieving good grades, graduating), personal milestones (e.g., getting a job, living alone), and relational goals (e.g., getting married, having children) to which to look forward.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Momentous life events entail textured, personally important experiences that, when contemplated, may serve as a platform for reassuring the individual of presence of meaning in life.
“Such occurrences entail textured, personally important experiences that, when contemplated upon, may serve as a platform for reassuring the individual of presence of meaning in their life.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Nostalgia fortifies the self-system.
“Assuming that nostalgia fortifies the self-system (Routledge et al., 2011, Study 5;Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 1), a nostalgia infusion will decrease the need to respond defensively to meaning threat.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Some persons are more likely than others to endure meaning deficits.
“Some persons are more likely than others to endure meaning deficits, and, to the extent that nostalgia imbues life with meaning, it should help to offset this void.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
All persons, regardless of circumstances surrounding their upbringing and regardless of personality characteristics, have a certain store of positive, atypical events from which they can draw nostalgically in times of need.
“Our argument is based on the supposition that all persons, regardless of circumstances surrounding their upbringing and regardless of personality characteristics, have a certain store of positive, atypical events from which they can draw nostalgically in times of need.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Boredom signals lack of meaningful engagement.
“Boredom signals lack of meaningful engagement.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Nostalgia is a positive emotion.
“As a positive emotion”
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The source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
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“Lastly, a large number of experiments, mostly involving American and British participants, demonstrated that nostalgizing (vs. control) increases positive, but not negative, affect (Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, Arndt, Hepper, Zhou, 2015; Sedikides et al., 2021).”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, Arndt, Hepper, Zhou, 2015
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“A sizeable literature documented that experimentally induced nostalgia (via the Event Re fl ection Task, songs, or music) augments social connectedness (Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, Arndt, Hepper, Zhou, 2015; Frankenbach et al., 2021).”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, Arndt, Hepper, Zhou, 2015
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In the citing paper
“We hypothesized and found that, compared with self-continuity, negative self-discontinuity (but not positive self-discontinuity) significantly increased nostalgia.”
From Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia (2023) · cites this paper as Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, & Arndt, 2015
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“We conceptualized nostalgia as a self-relevant, social, and predominantly positive emotion serving key psychological functions.These functions include (but are not limited to) PA, social connectedness, and self-esteem (Sedikides et al., 2015).”
From Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration: Mediating Mechanisms and Motivational Implications (2015) · cites this paper as Sedikides et al., 2015
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“In summary, evidence points to nostalgia being a moral emotion, given that it involves others, and encourages sociomoral attitudes and behaviors59–61.”
From Nostalgia increases punitiveness by intensifying moral concern (2024) · cites this paper as [61]
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
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“We implemented, in Study 2, a validated manipulation of nostalgia, the Event Reflection Task (Sedikides et al., 2015).”
From Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration: Mediating Mechanisms and Motivational Implications (2015) · cites this paper as Sedikides et al., 2015
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“Nostalgia affords not only remarkable intrapersonal benefits (Sedikides et al., 2015) but also distinct patterns of futureoriented tendencies (i.e., inspiration, goal pursuit).”
From Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration: Mediating Mechanisms and Motivational Implications (2015) · cites this paper as Sedikides et al., 2015
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In the citing paper
“Participants in the nostalgia condition scored significantly higher on a four-item measure of self-continuity (e.g., 'I feel connected with my past'), compared with participants in the control condition.”
From Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia (2023) · cites this paper as Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, & Arndt, 2015
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe check wasn’t confident either way, so it gives no verdict — never disputed.
In the citing paper
“we randomly assigned undergraduate students to one of three experimental conditions (Study 2).”
From Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia (2023) · cites this paper as Sedikides, Wildschut, Routledge, & Arndt, 2015
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Features called central are listed as peripheral
MinorThe text identifies change and desire as central features, but Table 1 places change and wishing/desire among the peripheral features. Future is not listed as a feature in the table.
“We (Hepper et al., 2012, Studies 1 and 2) found that the central features of the nostalgia prototype included growthdenoting words (e.g., change, desire, future).”
“| Peripheral features | | Comfort/warmth | | Wishing/desire | | Dreams/daydreaming | | Mixed feelings | | Change |”
Five continents become all continents
MinorThe cross-cultural samples are described as spanning five continents, but the later summary says the countries span all continents.
“Its perceived content-reflecting fond memories intermixed with yearning about one's childhood, close relationships, or a satisfying and atypically positive event-is similar in many countries spanning all continents.”
“We (Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014) gauged the equivalence of prototypical conceptions of nostalgia in a range of cultures that spanned 18 countries (e.g., Australia, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Japan, Uganda, Romania, United States) across five continents.”
The future-event prompt asks participants to recall the past
MinorThe quoted control prompt asks for a future positive event, then immediately specifies a past event. Those instructions give incompatible time frames for the same event.
“future positive event ("bring to mind a future positive event in your life; specifically, try to think of a past event that makes you feel most positive")”
“We (Vess et al., 2012, Experiment 1) reasoned that imagining a future positive event would likely engender perceptions of self-positivity, making this a stringent control condition.”
One study is assigned two different nostalgia inductions
MinorRoutledge et al. (2011, Study 2) is described first as exposing participants to previously identified nostalgic lyrics and later as inducing nostalgia with the Event Reflection Task. The accounts conflict about which procedure induced nostalgia in that study.
“In Routledge et al. (2011, Study 2), UK undergraduates exposed to nostalgic (vs.control) lyrics-identified as such in a prior session-reported heightened meaning”
“In a follow-up investigation, we (Routledge et al., 2011, Study 2) tested the replicability of these findings.We induced nostalgia with the ERT (nostalgic vs. ordinary event).”
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“…with noxious stimuli or aversive psychological/physiological states, such meaninglessness, boredom, inauthenticity, and physical coldness or bad weather (Lasaleta & Loveland, 2019; Routledge, Wildschut, Sedikides, & Juhl, 2013; Sedikides et al., 2015; Wildschut, Sedikides, & Cordaro, 2011).”
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“Thus, although most associations involving nostalgia and well-being were negative, we found some support for the notion that nostalgia is a mixed emotion as suggested by previous findings (e.g., Sedikides et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Hepper, E. G., & Zhou, X.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- North Dakota State University (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- University of Surrey (GB)
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Sedikides, Constantine
- Venue
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 189-273
- ISSN
- 0065-2601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W55904690
- Semantic Scholar
- 1c2954d45d3433ac47986ec8b9ead8a9b5694bb0
- Cited by
- 348
- References
- 353
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 34 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 9
- FWCI
- 62.89
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Advances in experimental social psychology (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- nostalgia, functions of emotions, self-positivity, existential meaning, social connectedness, prosocial behavior, avoidance motivation, approach motivation, loneliness, social exclusion, stress, boredom, death awareness, meaninglessness, homeostasis
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