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Tim Wildschut
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 165
Citations - 10280
Tim Wildschut is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Social connectedness. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 137 publications receiving 7809 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim Wildschut include Utrecht University & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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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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Music-evoked nostalgia: affect, memory, and personality.
Frederick S. Barrett,Kevin J. Grimm,Richard W. Robins,Tim Wildschut,Constantine Sedikides,Petr Janata +5 more
TL;DR: Nostalgia was stronger to the extent that a song was autobiographically salient, arousing, familiar, and elicited a greater number of positive, negative, and mixed emotions.
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Counteracting Loneliness On the Restorative Function of Nostalgia
TL;DR: The indirect effect of loneliness was to increase perceived social support via nostalgia, and this restorative function of nostalgia was particularly apparent among resilient persons.
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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.