What’s New Is Old Again: Nostalgia and Retro-Styling in Response to Authenticity Threats

Lasaleta, Jannine; Loveland, Katherine

doi:10.1086/702473

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“…Social role disruption is identified as an antecedent to self-inauthenticity. Also, we reveal that previously established mechanisms for coping with inauthenticity (i.e., nostalgia, reflecting on the past; [15]) are less effective during this ongoing pandemic.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Self-continuity is the subjective perception that one's past, present, and future selves are interconnected [24,25]. People whose autobiographical narrative is stable over time will subjectively experience self-continuity and feel authentically themselves [15]. In contrast, people whose autobiography lacks temporal continuity will feel inauthentic [15].…”

Section: Social Role Disruption and Self-authenticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…People whose autobiographical narrative is stable over time will subjectively experience self-continuity and feel authentically themselves [15]. In contrast, people whose autobiography lacks temporal continuity will feel inauthentic [15]. Prior research finds that self-continuity is destabilized by life-role transitions.…”

Section: Social Role Disruption and Self-authenticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, a self-authenticity perspective offers a novel path for devising coping strategies to improve psychological wellbeing under COVID-19. Research finds that people feel more authentic when they experience self-continuity, stability of the self across time [15]. Drawing on this research, we propose that COVID-19-related role changes cause inauthenticity by reducing continuity of the self across time, and we rely on this proposition to test strategies for coping with COVID-19 that vary in temporal perspective (i.e., past, present, or future).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

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The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

2021

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Social role disruption is a state involving upheaval of social identities, routines and responsibilities. Such disruption is presently occurring at a global scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which poses a threat not only to health and security but also to the social roles that underlie people’s daily lives. Our collective response to combat the virus entails, for example, parents homeschooling children, friends socializing online, and employees working from home. While these collective efforts serve the greater good, people’s social roles now lack continuity from what was authentic to the roles before the pandemic began. This, we argue, takes a psychological toll. Individuals feel inauthentic, or alienated and out-of-touch from their “true” selves, to the extent their social roles undergo change. As evidence, we report survey (Studies 1 & 4) and experimental (Studies 2 & 3) evidence that COVID-19-related role changes indeed increase inauthenticity. This effect occurs independent of (a) how positively/negatively people feel about COVID-19 (Study 2) and (b) how positively/negatively people feel about the role change itself (Studies 3 & 4). Moreover, we identify two moderators of this effect. First, this effect occurs when (and ostensibly because) the social roles undergoing change are central to an individual’s sense of self (Study 2). Second, this effect depends on an individual’s temporal perspective. People can safeguard their self-authenticity in the face of changing social roles if they stay focused on the here-and-now (the present and immediate future), rather than focusing on the past (pre-COVID-19) or future (post-COVID-19) (Studies 3 & 4). This advantage for present-focused coping is observed in both the U.S.A. (Study 3) and Hong Kong (Study 4). We suggest that the reason people feel more authentically themselves when they maintain a present focus is because doing so makes the discontinuity of their social roles less salient.

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Section: Social Role Disruption and Self-authenticitymentioning

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The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

2021

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“…Having an identity called into question raises concerns about self‐authenticity (Erickson, 1995; Peterson, 2005). People often utilize consumption activities to compensate when the self is threatened (Cui, Fam, Zhao, Xu, & Han, 2020) and research suggests that consumers may engage in consumption aimed at restoring feelings of self‐authenticity after an identity threat (Guèvremont & Grohmann, 2016; Kokkoris, Hoelzl, & Alós‐Ferrer, 2019; Lasaleta & Loveland, 2019; Newman & Smith, 2016).…”

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Do I seem real to you? The role of external audiences in the consumption‐driven self‐authentication process

Kuchmaner

Wiggins

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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People use consumption choices as a means of authenticating their identities. Research on self‐authenticity has been scant in marketing, favoring instead product and brand authenticity. In psychology, research has largely focused on the positive outcomes of self‐authenticity, leaving its antecedents and the process through which it is achieved as key unanswered questions. In this conceptual paper, we address these gaps by delineating the consumption‐driven self‐authentication process. Consumers can engage in authenticating consumption acts involving meaning appropriation and meaning creation, which affect feelings of self‐authenticity. However, external audiences play a key role in validating the individual's self‐authentication through feedback in the form of direct validation or validation via social comparison. We argue that external audiences are a necessary component of the self‐authentication process that has implications for deepening our understanding of self‐authenticity.

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A meta‐analysis on the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgia: The moderating roles of nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics

Santini

Lim

Ladeira

et al. 2023

Psychology and Marketing

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While previous research suggests that nostalgia can stimulate future‐oriented motivation and goal pursuit, the presence of conflicting findings complicate our understanding of the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgia. This study introduces and empirically validates a theoretical framework for nostalgia through a meta‐analysis of 90 effect sizes and 9757 aggregate samples from 22 experimental studies. Our findings enrich understanding of the effects of nostalgia, showing that compared to a control, nostalgia enhances consumers' sense of pleasantness, self‐continuity, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. We also identify several moderators that shape the effects of nostalgia, namely nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics. Intriguingly, stronger behavioral intentions manifest in response to nostalgic events (rather than objects), realistic (over nonrealistic) scenarios, visual (as opposed to textual) priming, and female‐majority (vs. male‐majority) samples. However, we observe that long‐term (vs. short‐term) oriented cultures exhibit diminished nostalgia effects. Furthermore, we find no significant variations in responses based on age (older vs. younger), type of nostalgic experience (personal vs. collective), and sample type (students vs. nonstudents). Collectively, our meta‐analysis reveals the intricate dynamics of nostalgia, emphasizing its profound impact on consumer behavior as shaped by moderators such as nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics, thereby providing a multifaceted and nuanced understanding of nostalgia.

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What’s New Is Old Again: Nostalgia and Retro-Styling in Response to Authenticity Threats

Cited by 26 publications

References 31 publications

The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

Do I seem real to you? The role of external audiences in the consumption‐driven self‐authentication process

A meta‐analysis on the psychological and behavioral consequences of nostalgia: The moderating roles of nostalgia activators, culture, and individual characteristics

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