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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures
Emotion, Volume 14, No. 4, Year 2014
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Description
Nostalgia is a frequently experienced complex emotion, understood by laypersons in the United Kingdom and United States of America to (a) refer prototypically to fond, self-relevant, social memories and (b) be more pleasant (e.g., happy, warm) than unpleasant (e.g., sad, regretful). This research examined whether people across cultures conceive of nostalgia in the same way. Students in 18 countries across 5 continents (N = 1,704) rated the prototypicality of 35 features of nostalgia. The samples showed high levels of agreement on the rank-order of features. In all countries, participants rated previously identified central (vs. peripheral) features as more prototypical of nostalgia, and showed greater interindividual agreement regarding central (vs. peripheral) features. Cluster analyses revealed subtle variation among groups of countries with respect to the strength of these pancultural patterns. All except African countries manifested the same factor structure of nostalgia features. Additional exemplars generated by participants in an open-ended format did not entail elaboration of the existing set of 35 features. Findings identified key points of cross-cultural agreement regarding conceptions of nostalgia, supporting the notion that nostalgia is a pancultural emotion. © 2014 American Psychological Association.
Authors & Co-Authors
Hepper, Erica G.
United Kingdom, Guildford
University of Surrey
Wildschut, Tim
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Sedikides, Constantine
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Ritchie, Timothy D.
Ireland, Limerick
University of Limerick
Yung, Yiufai
United States, Cary
Sas Institute, Inc.
Hansen, Nina
Netherlands, Groningen
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Abakoumkin, Georgios
Greece, Volos
University of Thessaly
Arikan, Gizem
Turkey, Istanbul
Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Cisek, Sylwia Z.
United Kingdom, Southampton
University of Southampton
Demassosso, Didier B.
Cameroon, Yaounde
Université de Yaoundé I
Gebauer, Jochen E.
Germany, Berlin
Humboldt-universität zu Berlin
Gerber, J. P.
Australia, Sydney
Macquarie University
González, Roberto
Chile, Santiago
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Kusumi, Takashi
Japan, Kyoto
Kyoto University
Misra, Girishwar
India, New Delhi
University of Delhi
Rusu, Mihaela
Romania, Iasi
Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Ryan, Oisín
Ireland, Limerick
University of Limerick
Stephan, Elena
Israel, Ramat Gan
Bar-ilan University
Vingerhoets, Ad J.J.M.
Netherlands, Tilburg
Tilburg University
Zhou, Xinyue
China, Guangzhou
Sun Yat-sen University
Statistics
Citations: 182
Authors: 20
Affiliations: 17
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1037/a0036790
ISSN:
15283542
e-ISSN:
19311516