Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 733-747

  Hepper, Erica G ^a   Wildschut, Tim ^b   Sedikides, Constantine ^b   Ritchie, Timothy D ^c   Yung, Yiu Fai ^d   Hansen, Nina ^e   Abakoumkin, Georgios ^f   Arikan, Gizem ^g   Cisek, Sylwia Z ^b   Demassosso, Didier B ^h   Gebauer, Jochen E ⁱ   Gerber, J P ^j   González, Roberto ^k   Kusumi, Takashi ^l   Misra, Girishwar ^m   Rusu, Mihaela ⁿ   Ryan, Oisín ^c   Stephan, Elena ^o   J Vingerhoets, Ad J ^p   Zhou, Xinyue ^q  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^d SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^g OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

ⁱ HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^l KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

ⁿ ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^o BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^p TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^q SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Culture; Emotion; Nostalgia; Prototype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NOSTALGIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905111948     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036790     Document Type: Article

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