Research derived from terror management theory (TMT) has shown that people's efforts to
manage the awareness of death often have deleterious consequences for the individual and …

Nostalgia—defined as sentimental longing for one's past—is a self-relevant, albeit deeply
social, and an ambivalent, albeit more positive than negative, emotion. As nostalgia brings …

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 …

The present research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by
bolstering a sense of meaning in life. Study 1found that nostalgia was positively associated …

In three experiments we tested whether nostalgia bolsters meaning in life relative to two
other modes of autobiographical thought: imagining a desired future experience and …

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 …

It has been argued that affordances are not meaningful and are thus not useful to be applied
in contexts where specifically meaningfulness of experience is at stake (eg clinical contexts …

Positive clinical psychology is concerned with balancing positivity and negativity in human
experience and clinical treatment. This chapter focuses on the emotion of nostalgia, which is …

Research on the experience of awe suggests that awe has positive impacts on outcomes
like life satisfaction and belongingness. No published work, however, has reported effects of …

Not only do humans spend their lives in a densely woven web of meanings, but they also
need and want meaning. Although there are a variety of reasons for why this is the case, the …