Fighting the future with the past: nostalgia buffers existential threat

By J. Juhl, C. Routledge, Jamie Arndt, Constantine Sedikides, T. Wildschut. 2010

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Nostalgia as a Resource for Psychological Health and Well‐Being (2013, background): “Routledge et al. (2008) and Juhl et al. (2010) proposed the people who engage regularly in nostalgia would be less vulnerable to the psychological consequences associated with the awareness of mortality.”
Mental travel into the past: differentiating recollections of nostalgic, ordinary, and positive events (2012, background): “Finally, capitalizing on the high personal relevance and meaningfulness of nostalgic recollections (Juhl et al., 2010; Routledge et al., 2008, 2011, in press), we hypothesize that nostalgic (as opposed to other types of autobiographical) recollections will elicit stronger feelings of authenticity…”
Finding Meaning in Nostalgia (2018, methodology): “We (Juhl et al., 2010, Study 2) assessed dispositional nostalgia with the Southampton Nostalgia Scale, manipulated mortality awareness (mortality salience vs. extreme pain salience), and measured death anxiety using the Death of Self subscale of the Revised CollettLester Fear of Death Scale…”
Nostalgia Weakens the Desire for Money (2014, unknown): “For example , participants who write about a nostalgic event report feeling loved and protected more so than those who write about other autobiographical events (Juhl et al. 2010; Wildschut et al. 2006).”
Slowing Down in the Good Old Days: The Effect of Nostalgia on Consumer Patience (2016, background): “It can induce feelings of being loved and protected (Juhl et al. 2010) and thus can counteract feelings of loneliness (Wildschut et al. Xun (Irene) Huang (huangxun@ntu.edu.sg) is an assistant professor of marketing at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue,…”