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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This study examined the cognitive and affective aspects of volunteering experiences by focusing on the relationships between volunteers’ growth mindset, nostalgia, positive emotions, and their intention to continue volunteering.
Heetae Cho +3 more
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Former east, former west: Post-socialist nostalgia and feminist genealogies in today’s Europe [PDF]
, 2011 This paper connects current studies of post-socialist nostalgia to the issue of feminist genealogies in the contemporary European context. Studies of post-socialist nostalgia can prove significant not only for the former socialist East - to which they
Chiara Bonfiglioli +5 more
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Nostalgia decreases green consumption: The mediating role of past orientation
Business Research Quarterly, 2020 Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one’s past, can influence consumption behavior. The present research investigates how nostalgia affects green consumption.
Xuehua Wang, Chen-Ho Chao
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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2022 Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's past, has been garnering keen empirical attention in the psychological literature over the last two decades. After providing a historical overview, we place the emotion in cross-cultural context.
Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut
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THREE TYPES OF NOSTALGIA IN COMPUTER GAMES
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023 The article is devoted to the problems of representation of nostalgia in computer games and offers a distinction between its three interrelated forms: retrotopic, aestheticizing, nostalgia for childhood and lost parental home. These forms are featured in
Ksenia V. Igaeva
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Nostalgia and Heroism: Theoretical Convergence of Memory, Motivation, and Function
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This article seeks to develop theoretical convergences between the science of nostalgia and the science of heroism. We take four approaches in forging a conceptual relationship between these two phenomena.
Scott T. Allison, Jeffrey D. Green
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Open Cultural Studies, 2023 Since they first aired in the 1990s, Twin Peaks and The X-Files have been enduring hallmarks of cult television. This reputation only increased with the news that the shows were to be revived and, perhaps unsurprisingly, media discourse surrounding the ...
Jones Bethan
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In two experiments, we tested the influence of bringing to mind a memory of a special moment versus an ordinary moment on nostalgia and whether this elicited nostalgia was related directly to gratitude and the satisfaction of need for relatedness and ...
Rogelio Puente-Díaz +1 more
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2008 According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an ...
Arndt, A. +3 more
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