Water from the lake of memory: the regulatory model of nostalgia
Water from the lake of memory: the regulatory model of nostalgia
We organize the literature on triggers and functions of nostalgia by advancing a regulatory model in which the emotion serves as a homeostatic corrective (i.e., a process that establishes and maintains a relatively stable psychological equilibrium) that countervails the negative effects of psychological perturbations and adverse environmental conditions. We illustrate complementary approaches to testing this model as it applies to transient, or state-level, nostalgia and show how the model can be generalized to different levels of analysis, including chronic, or trait-level, nostalgia and collective nostalgia. We then formulate a proposal for future research inspired by recent developments in causal mediation analysis and conclude with a discussion of the model’s potential boundary conditions.
Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Wildschut, Tim and Sedikides, Constantine
(2022)
Water from the lake of memory: the regulatory model of nostalgia.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(doi:10.1177/09637214221121768).
Abstract
We organize the literature on triggers and functions of nostalgia by advancing a regulatory model in which the emotion serves as a homeostatic corrective (i.e., a process that establishes and maintains a relatively stable psychological equilibrium) that countervails the negative effects of psychological perturbations and adverse environmental conditions. We illustrate complementary approaches to testing this model as it applies to transient, or state-level, nostalgia and show how the model can be generalized to different levels of analysis, including chronic, or trait-level, nostalgia and collective nostalgia. We then formulate a proposal for future research inspired by recent developments in causal mediation analysis and conclude with a discussion of the model’s potential boundary conditions.
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Wildschut and Sedikides 2022, Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 August 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 November 2022
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