Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media
channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we …

The motion picture industry has provided a fruitful research domain for scholars in marketing
and other disciplines. The industry has high economic importance and is appealing to …

Although a consensus exists in the literature regarding the operationalization of the affective
component of destination image, interestingly there is no agreement on the …

Nostalgia is a self-conscious, bittersweet but predominantly positive and fundamentally
social emotion. It arises from fond memories mixed with yearning about one's childhood …

Vintage has been a growing trend in clothing recently, leading to major fashion brands
launching collections inspired by vintage pieces or luxury haute‐couture houses digging …

Retro brands are relaunched historical brands with updated features. The authors conduct a
“netnographic” analysis of two prominent retro brands, the Volkswagen New Beetle and Star …

Nostalgia fulfills pivotal functions for individuals, but lacks an empirically derived and
comprehensive definition. We examined lay conceptions of nostalgia using a prototype …

Music is so ubiquitous that it can be easy to overlook the powerful influence it exerts in so
many areas of our lives-from birth, through childhood, to old age. The Social and Applied …

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social
scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an …

Why do people feel emotional attachment to events occurring before they were born? This
paper examines ad-evoked vicarious nostalgia‐induced longing for a time period that an …