Using the Past to Enhance the Present: Boosting Happiness Through Positive Reminiscence

By F. Bryant, C. Smart, Scott P. King. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “People who use this strategy to intensify recall of the past would reminisce in a more vivid and engaging way (e.g., by reviewing photographs, scrapbooks, or by making trips back to memorable places from their past; Bryant et al. 2005; Bryant and Veroff 2007).”
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, background): “People who do so regularly show increased well-being (Bryant, 1989; Bryant et al., 2005).”
Positive emotion regulation and well-being: Comparing the impact of eight savoring and dampening strategies (2010, background): “…and Individual Differences (2010), doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010 either the effectiveness of a limited number of specific strategies (e.g., Bryant, 2003; Bryant et al., 2005; Langston, 1994; Nezlek & Kuppens, 2008) or the consequences of the overall savoring and/ or dampening abilities (e.g., Feldman…”
Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative and positive events: Associations with attachment and gender (2010, background): “We expected that women would show more maximizing strategies (i.e., reflecting on, marking and celebrating positive events) because women or girls do more of the analogous responses with negative events and affect (i.e., rumination, co-rumination, and support-seeking; e.g., Rose 2002), and women do ”
Three Ways to Be Happy: Pleasure, Engagement, and Meaning—Findings from Australian and US Samples (2009, background): “Consequently interventions aimed at increasing pleasure experiences, such as savouring and reminiscing ( Bryant et al. 2005; Bryant and Veroff 2007), counting one’s blessings and considering one’s best possible self (Sheldon and Lyubomirsky 2006), have been developed and tested.”
A question of balance: Time perspective and well-being in British and Russian samples (2010, background): “…gratification vs. passivity) and present (hedonistic engagement vs. fatalistic disengagement), but also to past experiences: people can be inclined to treasure and relive their past (Bryant et al., 2005), to distance themselves from it, or to use it in order to learn something for the future.”
Vacation (after-) effects on employee health and well-being, and the role of vacation activities, experiences and sleep (2012, background): “Despite the fact that people may differ in the extent to which they tend or are able to savor positive experiences, research suggests that strategies to savor can be learned (Bryant et al. 2005; Bryant and Veroff 2007), which may probably increase the benefits of vacation as well.”