The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia

C Sedikides, T Wildschut - European Review of Social Psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is an ambivalent–albeit more positive than
negative–emotion. Nostalgia is infused with sociality, as it refers to important figures from …

Collective nostalgia as a balm for the distressed social identity

MJA Wohl, A Stefaniak, A Smeekes - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Group history provides the experiential building blocks that shape social identity. When
contemporary events are perceived as having created (or creating) a discontinuity with that …

Longing for the “good old days” of our country: National nostalgia as a new master‐frame of populist radical right parties

A Smeekes, T Wildschut… - Journal of Theoretical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars and commentators have argued that national nostalgia forms a germane element
of the rhetoric of populist radical right parties (PRRP). We addressed the national nostalgia …

Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions

A Smeekes, C Sedikides… - British Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global trends surveys suggest that collective nostalgia for one's country is widespread.
Moreover, research indicates that collective nostalgia is used by populist radical‐right …

The psychology of White nationalism: Ambivalence towards a changing America

C Reyna, A Bellovary, K Harris - Social issues and policy review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rise in White nationalist ideology in America is one of the pressing issues of our times. In
this article, we make the case that White nationalists both extol the talents and virtues of …

Hanin: Nostalgia among Syrian refugees

T Wildschut, C Sedikides… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the psychological functions of nostalgia (hanin in Arabic) among Syrian
refugees residing in Saudi Arabia, who were forcibly displaced during the Syrian civil war …

A history of collective resilience and collective victimhood: Two sides of the same coin that explain Black Americans' present‐day responses to oppression

HP Selvanathan, J Jetten… - British Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Collective victimhood and collective resilience are two sides of the same coin. However,
most literature to date has focused on the experiences and consequences of collective …

Longing is in the memory of the beholder: Collective nostalgia content determines the method members will support to make their group great again

MJA Wohl, A Stefaniak, A Smeekes - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Across four studies, we tested whether the content of collective nostalgia has untapped utility
for understanding intergroup relations. In Study 1a, we demonstrated variance in the content …

Sociality and intergenerational transfer of older adults' nostalgia

T Wildschut, C Sedikides, S Robertson - Memory, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Interest in nostalgia has blossomed, yet its nature in older adulthood and potential for
intergenerational transfer to younger adults has remained neglected. In Experiment 1, we …

Regaining in-group continuity in times of anxiety about the group's future

A Smeekes, J Jetten, M Verkuyten… - Social …, 2018 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Collective nostalgia for the good old days of the country thrives across the world. However,
little is known about the social psychological dynamics of this collective emotion across …