Disillusionment arises when life experiences strongly discredited positive assumptions or deeply help beliefs. Under these conditions, people feel lost, confused, and disconnected from their social environments. Ultimately, disillusioned individuals struggle to maintain meaning and inhabit a state of existential concern. However, the past can provide solace as a refuge of meaning and social connection. Indeed, nostalgic reflection is a commonly cited source of meaning in life. Accordingly, we investigated if disillusioned people could rely on nostalgic reverie to bolster, or reestablish, diminished perceptions of meaning, in three experiments. In Study 1, we confirmed that experimentally induced disillusionment lowers perceptions of meaning...
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments-using varied operationali...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one’s past, is an emotion that arises from self-relevant and so...
Nostalgia is a self-conscious, bittersweet but predominantly positive and fundamentally social emoti...
Disillusionment arises when life experiences strongly discredited positive assumptions or deeply hel...
In three experiments we tested whether nostalgia bolsters meaning in life relative to two other mode...
Lonely individuals lack meaning in life. We hypothesized that nostalgia, a bittersweet emotion that ...
The present research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by bolster...
The current research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by bolster...
We formulated, tested and supported, in six studies, a theoretical model according to which individu...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, has several psychological effects. For example, it in...
Nostalgia fulfills pivotal functions for individuals, but lacks an empirically-derived and comprehen...
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments—using varied operationali...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is not merely a past-oriented emotion, but has implic...
Nostalgia involves a fond recollection of people and events lost to time. Growing evidence indicates...
Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for one’s past. We examined the effect of a 6-week, weekly nostal...
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments-using varied operationali...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one’s past, is an emotion that arises from self-relevant and so...
Nostalgia is a self-conscious, bittersweet but predominantly positive and fundamentally social emoti...
Disillusionment arises when life experiences strongly discredited positive assumptions or deeply hel...
In three experiments we tested whether nostalgia bolsters meaning in life relative to two other mode...
Lonely individuals lack meaning in life. We hypothesized that nostalgia, a bittersweet emotion that ...
The present research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by bolster...
The current research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by bolster...
We formulated, tested and supported, in six studies, a theoretical model according to which individu...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, has several psychological effects. For example, it in...
Nostalgia fulfills pivotal functions for individuals, but lacks an empirically-derived and comprehen...
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments—using varied operationali...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is not merely a past-oriented emotion, but has implic...
Nostalgia involves a fond recollection of people and events lost to time. Growing evidence indicates...
Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for one’s past. We examined the effect of a 6-week, weekly nostal...
Nostalgia increases meaning in life (MIL), but how so? In four experiments-using varied operationali...
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for one’s past, is an emotion that arises from self-relevant and so...
Nostalgia is a self-conscious, bittersweet but predominantly positive and fundamentally social emoti...