Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
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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Former east, former west: Post-socialist nostalgia and feminist genealogies in today’s Europe [PDF]
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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Read What You Know: Nostalgia and the Discovery of Self through L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon
This paper explores L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon through the critical lens of nostalgia, with an extension into the more intimate realms of family connection and personal identity.
Caroline E. Jones
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Restorative nostalgia, identity closures, conflicts and divisions
Nostalgia is a complex emotion produced by the individual and collective processes of remembering. Svetlana Boym distinguishes between reflective nostalgia, regarding the personal reactions to the passing of time, and restorative nostalgia, which acts on
Federico Zannoni
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From nostalgia to knowledge: Considering the personal dimensions of data lifecycles
AbstractData lifecycle models are used to visualize the stages data resources pass through from creation to completion of a research project and beyond. Although helpful, these models tend to depict idealized and impersonal circumstances that often involve curation actions taken by researchers themselves, while neglecting to represent dynamics ...
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Techniknostalgie als Forschungsfeld
Nostalgia is a characteristic of our time, and it extends more and more also to technology. Rapid technological change is as well a cause of modernisation and related social developments as a cause of reluctance to new technologies and nostalgic longing ...
Andreas Böhn
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Dying For Home: The Medicine and Politics of Nostalgia in Nineteenth-Century France [PDF]
PhDNostalgia was first conceived as a clinical entity in the seventeenth century, and understood as an extreme psychological and physical reaction to dislocation. The condition was interpreted as a rupture of bonds thought to bind individuals to their
O'Sullivan, Lisa Gabrielle
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The relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy
As a positive, social emotion, nostalgia has the potential to reduce the negative impact of social exclusion on empathy. I ran a series of experiments in order to establish the relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy.
Cordaro, Filippo
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A Book Review of Duchologia polska. Rzeczy i ludzie w latach transformacji by Olga Drenda [PDF]
This review discusses the book Duchologia polska. Rzeczy i ludzie w latach transformacji (2016) by Olga Drenda, placing it in the context of a larger cultural tendency representing an interest in the end of the period of socialist Poland and the ...
Marek Jeziński
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Dropping the weight stigma: Nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight [PDF]
Weight stigma, a negative attitude toward persons who are overweight, can lead to emotional detriment (increased vulnerability to depression and anxiety, decreased self-esteem) and discriminatory practices (denial of employment, lower wages, refusal of job promotion or college admission, healthcare deprivation), which have increased dramatically in the
Turner, Rhiannon N. +2 more
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