We review research on the role of nostalgia in supporting the ability to find, maintain, and
restore meaning in life. We consider evidence that nostalgia promotes aintaining and …

An effective way of identifying the psychological role of an emotion is by probing its position
relative to other emotions, such as in terms of appraisals, occurrence, lay conceptualization …

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one's past, has been garnering keen empirical attention
in the psychological literature over the last two decades. After providing a historical …

We organize the literature on triggers and functions of nostalgia by advancing a regulatory
model in which the emotion serves as a homeostatic corrective (ie, a process that …

Organizational change has been thought to evoke negative employee responses, yet it is
ubiquitous in modern market economies. It is thus surprising that the adverse effects of …

Nostalgia is a social, self-relevant, and bittersweet (although mostly positive) emotion that
arises when reflecting on fond past memories and serves key psychological functions. The …

Nostalgia arises from tender and yearnful reflection on meaningful life events or important
persons from one's past. In the last two decades, the literature has documented a variety of …

While the phenomenon of nostalgic heritage travel has gained traction, scarce inquiries
have researched how nostalgia for heritage sites can render a means for heritage …

Lonely individuals lack meaning in life. We hypothesized that nostalgia, a bittersweet
emotion that entails reflecting sentimentally on the past, helps restore meaning for lonely …

It is not yet clear how nostalgia achieves the wide-ranging benefits on wellbeing
documented by research. Much of the research favorable to nostalgia has employed …