A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.

By C. Routledge, Jamie Arndt, Constantine Sedikides, T. Wildschut. 2008

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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The Sweet Escape: Effects of Mortality Salience on Consumption Quantities for High- and Low-Self-Esteem Consumers (2008, background): “strategies, such as nostalgia proneness (Routledge et al. 2008) or attachment-related defensive actions (Hart, Shaver, and Goldenberg 2005).”
Nostalgia: The Gift That Keeps on Giving (2012, methodology): “Individuals differ in the extent to which they spontaneously engage in nostalgic recollections (Routledge et al. 2008; Zhou et al. 2008).”
Mental travel into the past: differentiating recollections of nostalgic, ordinary, and positive events (2012, background): “A nostalgia manipulation check followed (Routledge et al., 2008; Wildschut et al., 2006; Zhou et al., 2008).”
Cognitive outcomes of brand heritage: A signaling perspective (2018, background): “Past time orientation is therefore a cognitive bias leading to thinking more about the past; it is different from nostalgia proneness as it is purely cognitive and does not imply a valence (Routledge et al., 2008).”
Individual differences in nostalgia proneness: the integrating role of the need to belong (2013, background): “Routledge et al. (2008) provided evidence for the reliability and construct validity of the SNS.”
Nostalgia counteracts self‐discontinuity and restores self‐continuity (2015, methodology): “Prior research has shown that the SNS is significantly correlated with other measures of nostalgia proneness in Western (Routledge et al., 2008) and East-Asian (Zhou et al.”
The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia (2019, methodology): “Nostalgia proneness was assessed via both the Southampton Nostalgia Scale (Barrett et al., 2010; Routledge et al., 2008) and the Nostalgia Inventory (Batcho, 1995) where participants rate their nostalgia for 18 aspects of their past (e.g., “my family,” “my friends,” “vacations I went on” “my…”
Putting the Terror in Terror Management Theory (2016, methodology): “To test this, we first administered the Southampton Nostalgia Scale (Routledge et al., 2008).”
Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self (2012, methodology): “As noted earlier, this topic has been used in previous research, which has shown that this manipulation yields the predicted differences on measures of state nostalgia (Routledge et al., 2008; Wildschut et al., 2006, 2010; Zhou et al., 2008).”
Finding Meaning in Nostalgia (2018, methodology): “We (Juhl et al., 2010, Study 2) assessed dispositional nostalgia with the Southampton Nostalgia Scale, manipulated mortality awareness (mortality salience vs. extreme pain salience), and measured death anxiety using the Death of Self subscale of the Revised CollettLester Fear of Death Scale (Lester,”
Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “Furthermore, it can provide a sense of meaning in life (Baldwin, Biernat, and Landau 2015) and can serve as a buffer against threats of mortality salience (Routledge et al. 2008).”
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire (2015, methodology): “In a laboratory setting involving US undergraduates, we (Routledge et al., 2011, Preliminary Investigation) measured nostalgia with the Southampton Nostalgia Scale, and meaning with two presence of meaning scales.”