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1612-6041
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For centuries, nostalgia denoted homesickness, but current dictionary definitions indicate that these two concepts have parted ways and acquired discrete meanings. However, it is one thing to demonstrate that contemporary definitions of nostalgia and homesickness are distinct; it is another to show that the way people think about nostalgia and its characteristics corresponds to this lexicographic knowledge. In 2012, Erica G. Hepper and colleagues therefore asked laypeople to identify which features they considered most characteristic of the construct ›nostalgia‹ and found that respondents conceptualised nostalgia as a predominantly positive, social, and past-oriented emotion. In nostalgic reverie, one brings to mind a fond and personally meaningful event, often involving one’s childhood. The person tends to see the event through rose-coloured glasses and may even long to return to the past. As a result, he or she feels sentimental, typically happy but with a hint of sadness.
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Zeithistorische Forschungen, Potsdam : Zentrum für Zeithist. Forschung, 2004, 18(2021), 1, Seite 125-132, 1612-6041
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volume:18
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year:2021
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number:1
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pages:125-132
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wildschut, Tim Nostalgia and populism 2021
Language:
English
DOI:
10.14765/zzf.dok-2297
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Author information:
Sedikides, Constantine
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