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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test

open access: yesEuropean 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
wiley   +1 more source

Former east, former west: Post-socialist nostalgia and feminist genealogies in today’s Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

Read What You Know: Nostalgia and the Discovery of Self through L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon

open access: yesJournal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Restorative nostalgia, identity closures, conflicts and divisions

open access: yesEducazione Interculturale, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

From nostalgia to knowledge: Considering the personal dimensions of data lifecycles

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2022
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 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Techniknostalgie als Forschungsfeld

open access: yesTeorie vědy, 2010
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
doaj   +1 more source

Dying For Home: The Medicine and Politics of Nostalgia in Nineteenth-Century France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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
core   +4 more sources

The relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy

open access: yes, 2011
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
core   +2 more sources

A Book Review of Duchologia polska. Rzeczy i ludzie w latach transformacji by Olga Drenda [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Dropping the weight stigma: Nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2012
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
openaire   +4 more sources

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