Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy.

IF 6.4 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Journal of personality and social psychology Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI:10.1037/pspp0000529

David B Newman, Paul K Lutz, Matthew E Sachs, John M Zelenski

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Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for the past that is experienced across people from various cultures and across the lifespan. Though nostalgia has typically been conceptualized as a mixed emotion, prior research has primarily focused on positive effects. We hypothesized that nostalgia can additionally have certain negative effects. In particular, nostalgia shares certain features with envy, a negative emotion defined as a resentful longing for another person's fortune, luck, possessions, or attributes. We predicted that nostalgia would be positively related to envy and that nostalgia would increase feelings of envy. In two cross-sectional studies (Studies 1 and 2; N = 2,588), nostalgia was positively related to envy between individuals and after controlling for demographics and relevant personality traits. In three daily diary studies (Studies 3-5; N = 298; 3,454 daily reports), daily states of nostalgia were positively related to daily feelings of envy and after controlling for daily negative events. Lagged analyses indicated bidirectional effects, such that nostalgia predicted greater envy on the following day and vice versa. In two experiments (Studies 6 and 7; N = 513), nostalgia increased feelings of envy. This effect was mediated by feelings of regret and envy for a past self, suggesting that nostalgia makes people feel envious of their past self which leads to general feelings of envy. These studies point to a novel bitter effect of nostalgia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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释放怀旧的苦涩潜能：怀旧对嫉妒的共变及因果效应。

怀旧是一种对过去的感伤的渴望，来自不同文化背景的人在一生中都会经历这种渴望。虽然怀旧通常被定义为一种混合情绪，但之前的研究主要集中在积极影响上。我们假设怀旧还会产生一定的负面影响。特别是，怀旧和嫉妒有一些共同的特征，嫉妒是一种消极的情绪，被定义为对另一个人的财富、运气、财产或属性的怨恨的渴望。我们预测怀旧与嫉妒呈正相关，怀旧会增加嫉妒的感觉。在两项横断面研究中(研究1和2；N = 2588)，在控制人口统计学和相关人格特征后，怀旧与个体之间的嫉妒呈正相关。在三项日常日记研究中(研究3-5；N = 298；3,454份每日报告)，每日的怀旧状态与每日的嫉妒感呈正相关，在控制了每日的负面事件之后。滞后分析显示了双向效应，比如怀旧预示着第二天会更嫉妒，反之亦然。在两个实验中(研究6和7；N = 513)，怀旧增加了嫉妒的感觉。这种效应是由对过去的自己的后悔和嫉妒感所介导的，这表明怀旧使人们对过去的自己产生嫉妒，从而导致普遍的嫉妒感。这些研究指出了怀旧带来的一种新的痛苦效应。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA，版权所有）。

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Journal of personality and social psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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12.70

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3.90%

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250

期刊介绍： Journal of personality and social psychology publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology and emphasizes empirical reports, but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers.Journal of personality and social psychology is divided into three independently edited sections. Attitudes and Social Cognition addresses all aspects of psychology (e.g., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that take place in significant micro- and macrolevel social contexts.