Mental travel into the past: differentiating recollections of nostalgic, ordinary, and positive events

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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): “Participants completed measures of PA (Stephan, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2012), NA (Stephan et al., 2012), social-connectedness (Hepper et al., 2012), self-esteem (Hepper et al., 2012), and optimism (Cheung et al., 2013), all preceded by the stem “Now that I have this event in mind, I feel…” (1 =…”
Exploring Nostalgia's Influence on Psychological Growth (2014, background): “A related possibility is that nostalgia primes a sense of authenticity (Stephan et al., 2012), which may direct attention to those aspects of the self that are seen as truly valuable and meaningful to the individual.”
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire (2015, background): “Relatedly, we (Stephan et al., 2012, Study 2) asked whether nostalgia bolsters the sense of self as true or real (“authentic”; Lenton, Bruder, Slabu, & Sedikides, 2013).”
Nostalgia Weakens the Desire for Money (2014, unknown): “The other conceptualization describes nostalgia as an emotion that arises from reflection on one's past (Batcho 1995; Hepper et al. 2012; Holak and Havlena 1998; Sedikides et al. 2008; Sedikides, Wildschut, and Baden 2004; Stephan et al. 2012).”