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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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“Prior research has demonstrated that nostalgia is a cross-cultural experience (Hepper et al., 2014).”
From A meta-analysis on the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgia: The moderating roles of nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics (2023) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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“Laypeople in many cultures conceptualize nostalgia similarly: as a past-oriented, social, self-relevant, and bittersweet emotion, but more sweet (positively toned) than bitter (negatively toned).”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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“Cross-cultural agreement was high on the prototypicality of nostalgia features. This fi nding suggests that conceptions of nostalgia are pancultural.”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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“Next, the researchers pooled the correlation matrices across countries (except Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Uganda) and then factor-analyzed the combined matrix, revealing three factors. Factor 1 contained 12 central nostalgia features focusing on cognitive content (e.g., memory) and motivation (e.g., longing); it was labeled longing for the past . Factor 2 included eight peripheral features focusing”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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“The degree of crosscultural consistency in the interrelations among nostalgia features was high. That is, all but three African countries (i.e., Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda) formed a single cluster, with ancillary analyses revealing more similarities than differences between these three countries and the rest.”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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“Prototype-based research, mentioned above (Hepper et al., 2012, 2014), showed that laypersons conceptualize nostalgia in terms of sociality. For example, laypersons ascribe to the construct such central features as memories of their childhood or youth in the context of social relationships, yearning for close others, and a sense of warmth.”
From Nostalgia across cultures (2022) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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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.”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014)
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“It entails remembering or reminiscing about fond memories from the past.”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014)
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“Nostalgia is universally regarded as an emotion, especially one of longing.”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014)
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“These memories have personal relevance or involve relationships with others.”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Wildschut, et al. (2014)
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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).”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014
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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).”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Robertson, Wildschut, Sedikides, & Routledge, 2014, Study 1
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“Finally, nostalgia is experienced in many cultures across five continents (Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014).”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Wildschut, et al., 2014
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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).”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014
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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).”
From To Nostalgize (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper, Robertson, et al., 2014
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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.”
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“across cultures (18 countries spanning five continents; Hepper et al., 2014)”
From Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration: Mediating Mechanisms and Motivational Implications (2015) · cites this paper as Hepper et al., 2014
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Metadata
- 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)
- ORCID
- 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
- green
- research.rug.nl
- 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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