Nostalgia Proneness and the Collective Self

Abakoumkin, Georgios; Wildschut, Tim; Sedikides, Constantine

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.570621

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“…Still, understanding the meaning listeners associate with songs is important for research. Despite the association between nostalgia and collectivity (Abakoumkin, Wildschut, and Sedikides 2020), we found no association between participation in periods of collective catalog streaming and nostalgic streaming at the individual level. The social mechanisms that drive participation in social rituals may be different from those related to more personal practices.…”

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“…However, additional work suggests the particular meaning of nostalgia varies across cultures (Farese and Asano-Cavanagh 2019). Some evidence suggests tendency toward nostalgia varies by a country's collectivism or individualism (Abakoumkin, Wildschut, and Sedikides 2020;Granot et al 2021). We consider how robust trends are across national contexts to assess whether cultural differences result in different nostalgic listening behavior.…”

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Hanson

Anderton²,

Way³

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Nostalgia was once considered a medical disease but is now understood as a beneficial, identity-affirming emotion. Yet what induces feelings of nostalgia is not fully understood. Are nostalgic feelings prompted by changes in a person’s life, and do certain events prompt nostalgia across whole populations? In this paper, we analyze when people listen to nostalgic music. We use data from a large, cross-national survey to train a classifier to detect which tracks are nostalgic for individual listeners. We then analyze a comprehensive dataset of listening histories from a 5.5 year period. Despite it being a complex concept, we were able to predict nostalgic listening with relatively high precision. We compare our results across listeners from four countries to understand how consistent behavior toward nostalgic music is. We find people listen to nostalgic music more often as they age. We also find people tend to listen to nostalgic music consistently in their day-to-day lives. We do not find evidence that listening to personally nostalgic music increases in response to particular traditions, seasons, or events. However, we do find traditions and events can affect how much “back catalog” music people listen to. These trends are consistent across the national contexts we studied. Our results advance prior findings about nostalgia and the life course, and demonstrate a novel methodological consideration for studies of nostalgic listening.

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Hanson

Anderton²,

Way³

et al. 2022

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“…Recent work defined collective nostalgia as “the nostalgic reverie that is contingent upon thinking of oneself in terms of a particular social identity or as a member of a particular group…and concerns events or objects related to it” ( Wildschut et al, 2014 , p. 845), and established collective nostalgia as an intergroup emotion according to the principal tenets of IET. Collective nostalgia can be distinguished from its individual-level counterpart (i.e., personal nostalgia; Sedikides and Wildschut, 2019 ; Abakoumkin et al, 2020 )and, and collective nostalgia regulates and directs attitudes and behavior toward the collective. For example, individuals who experienced collective nostalgia by reflecting on a shared memory felt more positively about their group, reported stronger motivation to approach ingroup members, and were more willing to make a financial sacrifice to punish anti-ingroup behavior ( Wildschut et al, 2014 ).…”

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“…Relational collectivism refers to social identification at the small-network level (e.g., family and friends), and is characterized by concerns with harmony, reciprocity, cohesion, and responsiveness to others. Past research on collective nostalgia has not distinguished between relational collectivism and group collectivism [but see Abakoumkin et al (2020) ], and has focused almost exclusively on group collectivism, primarily national nostalgia. We propose to fill a gap in the literature by studying a form of collective nostalgia at the relational level: university nostalgia.…”

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The Ties That Bind: University Nostalgia Fosters Relational and Collective University Engagement

2021

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Does nostalgia for one’s time at university predict current intentions to engage with the university? In Study 1, United States participants’ nostalgia for their university experience (university nostalgia) at a southern public university predicted stronger intentions to socialize with fellow alumni, attend a future reunion, volunteer for their university, and donate money to their university. Study 2 replicated these findings with alumni from a northeastern private university, and extended them by finding that the links between university nostalgia and university engagement emerged even when controlling for the positivity of university experience. In both studies, feelings of university belonging mediated most of the associations between university nostalgia and university engagement. In Study 2, the positivity of the university experience moderated the relation between university nostalgia and two indices of university engagement. Specifically, university nostalgia was more strongly associated with intentions to attend a reunion and donate money among those who had a relatively negative university experience. Nostalgia for one’s university past predicts future engagement with the university as well as its members.

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“…For example, consumers prefer domestic products, which reflect a certain degree of stability and durability, and can provide them with a sense of belonging. Abakoumkin et al [ 46 ] also believed that nostalgia for their past groups was positively related to group collectivism and was related to the increase in prejudice and ethnocentrism.…”

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Research on the Driving Factors of Collective Nostalgia and the Impact of Collective Nostalgia on National Brand Consciousness

Zhang

Zhou

Qin

2022

IJERPH

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Nostalgia is an important factor affecting consumers’ intention and behavior. A lot of previous research on nostalgia has been conducted from the perspective of individuals rather than groups. Then how does group-based collective nostalgia come into being? How will consumers’ collective nostalgia affect their consumption decisions? And what can we do to guide it? By sorting out the relevant literature, this paper attempts to explore the driving factors of collective nostalgia and observe the internal impact of it on national brand consciousness. Furthermore, a mechanism model of collective nostalgia is constructed, and data collection and empirical analysis are carried out by means of a questionnaire. The results show that relative deprivation, social alienation, interpersonal alienation and environmental alienation have significant positive predictive effects on collective nostalgia, while cultural discontinuity and historical discontinuity have no significant predictive effect on collective nostalgia. In addition, collective nostalgia has a positive influence on national brand consciousness; personal identity, social identity and collective identity all play mediating roles between collective nostalgia and national brand consciousness. With the improvement in social emotion, the positive effect of social identity and collective identity on national brand consciousness is strengthened, while the influence of personal identity on national brand consciousness is not significant. The study enriches the basic theory of collective nostalgia and national brand consciousness and provides suggestions for further developing domestic brands and expanding the influence of domestic brands.

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Nostalgia Proneness and the Collective Self

Cited by 17 publications

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Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

Time after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening

The Ties That Bind: University Nostalgia Fosters Relational and Collective University Engagement

Research on the Driving Factors of Collective Nostalgia and the Impact of Collective Nostalgia on National Brand Consciousness

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