To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire

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Induced nostalgia increases optimism (via social-connectedness and self-esteem) among individuals high, but not low, in trait nostalgia (2016, methodology): “We induced nostalgia with the Event Reflection Task (Sedikides et al., 2015).”
Nostalgia motivates pursuit of important goals by increasing meaning in life (2018, methodology): “We induced nostalgia with the Event Reflection Task (Sedikides et al., 2015).”
The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia (2019, methodology): “…with noxious stimuli or aversive psychological/physiological states, such meaninglessness, boredom, inauthenticity, and physical coldness or bad weather (Lasaleta & Loveland, 2019; Routledge, Wildschut, Sedikides, & Juhl, 2013; Sedikides et al., 2015; Wildschut, Sedikides, & Cordaro, 2011).”
On the panculturality of self-enhancement and self-protection motivation: the case for the universality of self-esteem (2015, background): “…the positivity or diminish the negativity of the self, respectively (Alicke & Sedikides, 2009; Sedikides, 2012).1 Psychologists have likewise proposed several taxonomies of self-related emotions or affect (Keltner & Beer, 1995; Sedikides et al., 2015; Tangney & Tracy, 2012; Zeigler-Hill, 2013).”
Finding Meaning in Nostalgia (2018, neutral): “Zhou, X. (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical”