Nostalgia content and triggers

Nostalgia content

Salience of self

Object of Nostalgia

the self as central character

revolved around interactions with important others (e.g., friends, loved ones) or momentous events (e.g., graduation ceremonies, birth of a child)

Redemption

Affect signature

richer in expressions of positive than negative affect

Nostalgia triggers (Wildschut et al.,2006)

Negative affect: personally distressing experiences.

global negative mood

discrete negative affective states - loneliness

social interation

sensory input

disruptive life events (Sedikides, Wildschut, Gaertner, Routledge, & Arndt, 2008).

Feelings of insecurity (L. Zhou, Wang, Zhang, & Mou, 2013).

threats to feelings of value and purpose (Routledge et al., 2011)

awareness of one’s own mortality (Juhl, Routledge, Arndt, Sedikides, & Wildschut, 2010), and boredom (van Tilburg, Igou, & Sedikides, 2013).

reminders of current difficulties in expressing the intrinsic self (Baldwin et al., 2015)

decreased intrinsic self-expression and negative affect

Avoidance motivation (Stephan et al., 2014)

Boredom (Van Tilburg et al., 2013)

Search for meaning