A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia

According to terror management theory, people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality. Recent theory and research suggest that nostalgia is a meaning-providing resource and thus may serve such an existential function. The current research tests and sup...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of experimental social psychology 2008, Vol.44 (1), p.132-140
Hauptverfasser:	Routledge, Clay, Arndt, Jamie, Sedikides, Constantine, Wildschut, Tim
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Death Death-thought accessibility Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Knowledge management Meaninglessness Mortality Mortality salience Nostalgia Personality. Affectivity Psychology and medicine Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Self-protection Stress Survival strategy Thanatology
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