How nostalgia infuses life with meaning: From social connectedness to self‐continuity

WAP Van Tilburg, C Sedikides… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments—using varied
operationalizations of nostalgia, diverse populations, and complementary methodologies …

Grace under pressure: Resilience, burnout, and wellbeing in frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

RC Sumner, EL Kinsella - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus pandemic has necessitated extraordinary human resilience in order to
preserve and prolong life and social order. Risks to health and even life are being …

Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion‐based groups in the UK's early COVID‐19 response phase

PJ Maher, P MacCarron… - British Journal of Social …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Partisan patterns of compliance with public health measures are a feature of early COVID‐
19 responses. In many cases, these differences in behaviour relate to pre‐existing group …

Turds, traitors and tossers: the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter

S Ward, L McLoughlin - The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
There has been growing public attention around the abuse of MPs online including criminal
convictions for violent threats, regular coverage of racist and misogynistic language directed …

Understanding and avoiding misplaced efforts in conservation

AT Ford, AH Ali, SR Colla, SJ Cooke, CT Lamb… - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
Conservation relies on cooperation among different interest groups and appropriate use of
evidence to make decisions that benefit people and biodiversity. However, misplaced …

Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

U Peters, N Honeycutt, A De Block… - Philosophical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Members of the field of philosophy have, just as other people, political convictions or, as
psychologists call them, ideologies. How are different ideologies distributed and perceived …

Populism and layers of social belonging: Support of populist parties in Europe

A Langenkamp, S Bienstman - Political psychology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although scholars hypothesized early on that social belonging is an important predictor for
voting behavior, its role for populist voting remains empirically ambiguous and …

Bored like Hell: Religiosity reduces boredom and tempers the quest for meaning.

WAP Van Tilburg, ER Igou, PJ Maher, AB Moynihan… - Emotion, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Boredom involves a lack meaning. Conversely, religiosity offers people a sense of meaning.
Accordingly, we proposed that by imbuing a sense of meaningfulnesss, religiosity leads …

[HTML][HTML] Nostalgia relieves the disillusioned mind

PJ Maher, ER Igou, WAP van Tilburg - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
Disillusionment arises when life experiences strongly discredited positive assumptions or
deeply help beliefs. Under these conditions, people feel lost, confused, and disconnected …

Various forms of existential distress are associated with aggressive tendencies

WA Van Tilburg, ER Igou, PJ Maher… - Personality and Individual …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose that aggressive tendencies are more (vs. less) pronounced among people who
frequently (vs. less frequently) experience challenges to their perceived meaning in life. We …