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Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures.

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Nostalgia is a frequently experienced complex emotion, understood by laypersons in the United Kingdom and United States of America to (a) refer prototypically to fond, self-relevant, social memories and (b) be more pleasant (e.g., happy, warm) than unpleasant (e.g., sad, regretful). This research examined whether people across cultures conceive of nostalgia in the same way. Students in 18 countries across 5 continents (N = 1,704) rated the prototypicality of 35 features of nostalgia. The samples showed high levels of agreement on the rank-order of features. In all countries, participants rated previously identified central (vs. peripheral) features as more prototypical of nostalgia, and showed greater interindividual agreement regarding central (vs. peripheral) features. Cluster analyses revealed subtle variation among groups of countries with respect to the strength of these pancultural patterns. All except African countries manifested the same factor structure of nostalgia features. Additional exemplars generated by participants in an open-ended format did not entail elaboration of the existing set of 35 features. Findings identified key points of cross-cultural agreement regarding conceptions of nostalgia, supporting the notion that nostalgia is a pancultural emotion.

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Authors
Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y.-F., Hansen, N., Abakoumkin, G., Arikan, G., Cisek, S. Z., Demassosso, D. B., Gebauer, J. E., Gerber, J. P., González, R., Kusumi, T., Misra, G., Rusu, M., Ryan, O., Stephan, E., Vingerhoets, A. J. J., & Zhou, X.
Affiliations
  • University of Southampton (GB)
  • University of Limerick (IE)
  • SAS Institute (United States) (US)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • University of Thessaly (GR)
  • Université de Yaoundé I (CM)
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
  • Macquarie University (AU)
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
  • Kyoto University (JP)
  • University of Delhi (IN)
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (RO)
  • Bar-Ilan University (IL)
  • Tilburg University (NL)
  • Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2014
Volume
14
Issue
4
Pages
733-747
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2141198037
Cited by
237
References
95
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 8
FWCI
23.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
  • Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • eResearch@Ozyegin (submittedVersion)
  • University of Thessaly Institutional Repository (University of Thessaly) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Economic and Social Research Council (RES-000-22-3110)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (91124004, 31171002)
  • Sun Yat-Sen University (985-3)
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 › Cultural Differences and Values
Keywords
nostalgia, cross-cultural universality, prototypicality, cross-cultural comparison
MeSH terms
Adult, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Cultural Characteristics, Emotions, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Male, Memory, Students, United States, Cluster Analysis, Young Adult

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