ABSTRACT

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 one’s past or to momentous life events that include those figures. Dispositional nostalgia is related to prejudice reduction via increases in a form of sociality, empathy. Experimentally induced nostalgia fosters sociality, operationalised as social connectedness (sense of acceptance). Social connectedness, in turn, has downstream consequences for (1) inspiration and goal-pursuit, (2) self-continuity and wellbeing, as well as (3) inclusion of an outgroup member in the self or outgroup trust and intergroup contact intentions. At the collective level, nostalgia confers sociality benefits to the ingroup (favourable attitudes, support, loyalty, collective action, barrier to collective guilt), but is also associated with negative sides of sociality such as outgroup rejection and exclusion. Collective nostalgia’s sociality is amenable to exploitation and can have controversial ramifications.

摘要

怀旧是对过去的情感向往，是一种矛盾的情绪（尽管比消极情绪更积极）。怀旧与社会融合在一起，因为它指的是过去的重要人物或包括这些人物在内的重大生活事件。性格怀旧与通过增加社交性，同情心而减少偏见有关。实验性怀旧可以促进社交性，可作为社交联系（接受感）进行操作。反过来，社交联系对（1）灵感和目标追求，（2）自我连续性和幸福感，以及（3）将外联成员纳入自身或外联信任和小组间联系意向具有下游影响。在集体层面上，怀旧可以给群体带来社会效益（良好的态度，支持，忠诚，集体行动，集体罪恶感的障碍），但也与社会性的消极方面相关联，例如群体排斥和排斥。集体怀旧的社会性易于剥削，并可能引起争议。