Nostalgia motivates pursuit of important goals by increasing meaning in life

By Constantine Sedikides, Wing-Yee Cheung, T. Wildschut, Erica G. Hepper, E. B. Baldursson, Bendt Torpegård Pedersen. 2018

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b26db2e0665beb75a16e73798db1690419332db4

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Gender Studies

1. T. Wildschut
2. Constantine Sedikides

In Social Psychology

1. T. Wildschut
2. Constantine Sedikides
3. Ad Vingerhoets
4. Wijnand Adriaan Pieter Van Tilburg
5. C. Routledge
6. Jamie Arndt
7. M. Landau
8. L. Gaertner

Citations in the corpus

• Finding Meaning in Nostalgia (2018, methodology): “We (Sedikides et al., 2017) expanded this literature by testing the hypothesis that meaning in life (as induced by nostalgia) will be linked to motivation for goal pursuit.”
• How nostalgia infuses life with meaning: From social connectedness to self‐continuity (2018, result): “This result also corroborates prior findings (Routledge et al., 2011, 2012; Sedikides et al., 2018).”