Seven studies reveal that nostalgia, a sentimental affection for the past, offers a window to
the intrinsic self-concept—who people think they truly are. In Study 1, state nostalgia was …

A two stage model was developed and tested to explain how ethical leadership relates to
followers' ethical judgment in an organizational context. Drawing on social learning theory …

Five studies examined whether quality of motivation (as individual differences and primed)
facilitates or thwarts integration of positive and negative past identities. Specifically, more …

What is the function of self-esteem? We classified relevant theoretical work into 3
perspectives. The cultural norm-fulfillment perspective regards self-esteem a result of …

That people pursue or maximize positive experiences and avoid or minimize negative ones
is indeed" psychology's most fundamental and immutable behavioral law." A brand of this …

People overestimate themselves in domains that are central to their self-concept. Critically,
the psychological status of this “self-centrality principle” remains unclear. One view regards …

How does affect or mood influence the way people think, remember, and deal with
information? Understanding the delicate interplay between feeling and thinking, affect and …

Employing different experimental priming procedures and advertising treatments across two
studies, we examine the moderating role of consumer affective state on individuals' …

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is commonly conceived as stimulus-driven associative
learning. Here, we show that internally generated encoding activities mediate EC effects …

It is very human to forget unpleasantness, so that when we reminisce about the past we can
truly make those the good old days in our memory. When we fight to save the old courthouse …