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Nostalgia as motivation

Nostalgia as motivation
Nostalgia as motivation

Nostalgia, an approach-oriented emotion, has motivational consequences. In particular, nostalgia raises optimism and inspiration, strengthens the pursuit of one's important goals, appears to encourage financial risk-taking activates the intrinsic or authentic self, and galvanizes the desire to change one's addictive behavior. Nostalgia, a past-oriented emotion, has strong implications for the future. We discuss boundaries of these effects, highlight lacunae in the literature, and point to promising research directions.

Approach motivation, Goal-pursuit, Inspiration, Nostalgia, Optimism
2352-250X
Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine and Wildschut, Tim (2023) Nostalgia as motivation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 49, [101537]. (doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101537).

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Abstract

Nostalgia, an approach-oriented emotion, has motivational consequences. In particular, nostalgia raises optimism and inspiration, strengthens the pursuit of one's important goals, appears to encourage financial risk-taking activates the intrinsic or authentic self, and galvanizes the desire to change one's addictive behavior. Nostalgia, a past-oriented emotion, has strong implications for the future. We discuss boundaries of these effects, highlight lacunae in the literature, and point to promising research directions.

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Sedikides & Wildschut, in press, Current Opinion in Psychology - Accepted Manuscript
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 November 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 December 2022
Published date: 1 February 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: No funding source was involved in this research or preparation of the article. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: Approach motivation, Goal-pursuit, Inspiration, Nostalgia, Optimism
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Local EPrints ID: 473715
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/473715
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101537
ISSN: 2352-250X
PURE UUID: 807b209c-5ae6-4b60-9896-3420ccd37647
ORCID for Constantine Sedikides: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-889X
ORCID for Tim Wildschut: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6499-5487

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Date deposited: 30 Jan 2023 17:32
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 04:16

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Author: Constantine Sedikides ORCID iD
Author: Tim Wildschut ORCID iD

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