The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis | Zendy

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The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis

Author(s) -

Joost M. Leunissen,

Tim Wildschut,

Constantine Sedikides,

Clay Routledge

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

emotion review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.798

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1754-0747

pISSN - 1754-0739

DOI - 10.1177/1754073920950455

Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , psychology , affect (linguistics) , ambivalence , social psychology , negative emotion , aesthetics , communication , art , geometry , mathematics

We conducted an integrative data analysis to examine the hedonic character of nostalgia. We combined positive and negative affect measures from 41 experiments manipulating nostalgia (N = 4,659). Overall, nostalgia inductions increased positive and ambivalent affect, but did not significantly alter negative affect. The magnitude of nostalgia’s effects varied markedly across different experimental inductions of the emotion. The hedonic character of nostalgia, then, depends on how the emotion is elicited and the benchmark (i.e., control condition) to which it is compared. We discuss implications for theory and research on nostalgia and emotions in general.

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