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Anticipated nostalgia: Looking forward to looking back

    Psychology

  • 2019

Anticipated nostalgia concerns the anticipation of having nostalgic feelings for one’s present and future experiences, and its prevalence, content, emotional profile, and implications for self-regulation and psychological functioning are assessed.

Finding Meaning in Nostalgia

Nostalgia—defined as sentimental longing for one's past—is a self-relevant, albeit deeply social, and an ambivalent, albeit more positive than negative, emotion. As nostalgia brings the past into