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Clay Routledge
Researcher at North Dakota State University
Publications - 108
Citations - 7265
Clay Routledge is an academic researcher from North Dakota State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mortality salience & Terror management theory. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 108 publications receiving 5957 citations. Previous affiliations of Clay Routledge include University of Southampton & University of Missouri.
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Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions
TL;DR: Seven methodologically diverse studies addressed 3 fundamental questions about nostalgia and established that nostalgia bolsters social bonds, increases positive self-regard, and generates positive affect.
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Nostalgia Past, Present, and Future
TL;DR: The authors argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions, and that it is triggered by dysphoric states such as negative mood and loneliness.
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A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.
TL;DR: The authors found that nostalgia buffered the effects of mortality salience on death-thought accessibility and found that people turn to meaning-providing structures to cope with the knowledge of inevitable mortality.
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The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.
Clay Routledge,Jamie Arndt,Tim Wildschut,Constantine Sedikides,Claire M. Hart,Jacob Juhl,Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets,Wolff Schlotz +7 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate that the provision of existential meaning is a pivotal function of nostalgia, and that nostalgia disrupts the link between meaning deficits and compromised psychological well-being.
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Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: the role of attachment-related avoidance.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, in addition to being a source of social connectedness, nostalgia increased participants' perceived capacity to provide emotional support to others and this beneficial effect of nostalgia was significantly stronger when attachment-related avoidance was low (compared with high).