Nostalgia: conceptual issues and existential functions

By Constantine Sedikides, R. Wildschut, D. Baden. 2004

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A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia. (2008, methodology): “Drawing from this deWnition, a revitalization of interest in the construct has focused on its positive and self-relevant implications (Sedikides et al., 2004, 2006).”
The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia (2019, background): “characterised by despondency, uncontrollable weeping, anorexia, insomnia, cardiac palpitations, and suicidal ideation (Batcho, 2013a; Sedikides et al., 2004).”
The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis (2020, background): “Historically, nostalgia has been regarded as a negative emotion, but recent views endorse the emotion’s positive aspects (for historical reviews, see Batcho, 2013; Dodman, 2018; Sedikides et al., 2004).”
Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “Several studies confirm this possibility (Davis 1979; Routledge et al. 2011; Sedikides et al. 2004).”
The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security (2019, background): “A sentimental longing for a positive past is a near-universal phenomenon—even if one that cannot plausibly recur—that is often characterized by feelings of both sadness and joy (for example, Sedikides et al 2004).”
Fighting the future with the past: nostalgia buffers existential threat (2010, background): “This idea was postulated by Sedikides et al. (2004); see also Routledge and Arndt (2005) in their original theoretical account of the functional nature of nostalgia and was first tested by Routledge, Arndt, Sedikides, and Wildschut (2008).”
Nostalgia (2008, unknown): “Nostalgia has been conceptualized variously as a negative, ambivalent, or positive emotion (Sedikides et al., 2004). These conceptualizations were put to test. In a study by Wildschut, Stephan, Sedikides, Routledge, and Arndt (2008), British and American undergraduates wrote narratives about a ‘‘nos”