An Experimental Test of the Discontinuity Hypothesis: Examining the Effects of Mortality Salience on Nostalgia
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The present study used the mortality salience paradigm to test experimentally the discontinuity hypothesis that nostalgia emerges in response to threats to the continuity of identity. Forty-seven university students were primed to think about their own death, taking a difficult exam, or watching television. Following a delay, participants completed two measures of nostalgia. Participants in the mortality salience condition did not differ from participants in the other conditions in their ratings of the present, future, or past state of the world. Participants in the mortality salience condition choose to write about the future instead of the past more often than did participants in the other two conditions. The results failed to support the discontinuity hypothesis.
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