This research established collective nostalgia as a group-level emotion and ascertained the benefits it confers on the group. In Study 1, participants who reflected on a nostalgic event they had experienced together with ingroup members (collective nostalgia) evaluated the ingroup more positively and reported stronger intentions to approach (and not avoid) ingroup members than those who recalle...

Recent research views nostalgia as a valuable resource that can be accessed in times of distress and discomfort. The present work complements this literature by examining novel previously uncovered triggers downstream consequences the consumer domain: disease-threat protective behavior. current paper argues functions such psychological with buffering qualities is used coping mechanism to mainta...

Weight stigma, a negative attitude toward the overweight, can lead to discriminatory practices, as well increase overweight individuals' vulnerability depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. We propose that nostalgia induction attenuate weight stigma. Participants identified an individual, before writing about interpersonal encounter with characterized by either central (e.g., “keepsakes” “ch...

Nostalgic memories can be pleasant, albeit bittersweet, and have been found beneficial for well-being. This study demonstrated that for individuals who habitually worry, nostalgia may not be such a nourishing experience. Nostalgia was experimentally induced using a visual imagery task and resulted in positive affect. Although this was also the case for participants who habitually worry, these i...

Synopsis This essay explores the representation of Italian terrorists in recent generational films set in the 1960s and 1970s. While they foreground the protagonists’ youth and celebrate it as a historically new condition, these coming-of-age narratives typically present radicalism either in terms of youthful idealism or youthful error, with corresponding nostalgic or revisionist approaches tha...