Music-Evoked Nostalgia: Affect, Memory, and Personality

Frederick S. Barrett; Kevin J. Grimm; Richard W. Robins; Tim Wildschut; Constantine Sedikides; Petr Janata

doi:10.1037/a0019006

Music-Evoked Nostalgia: Affect, Memory, and Personality

Frederick S. Barrett, Kevin J. Grimm, Richard W. Robins, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Petr Janata

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Abstract

Participants listened to randomly selected excerpts of popular music and rated how nostalgic each song made them feel. Nostalgia was stronger to the extent that a song was autobiographically salient, arousing, familiar, and elicited a greater number of positive, negative, and mixed emotions. These effects were moderated by individual differences (nostalgia proneness, mood state, dimensions of the Affective Neurosciences Personality Scale, and factors of the Big Five Inventory). Nostalgia proneness predicted stronger nostalgic experiences, even after controlling for other individual difference measures. Nostalgia proneness was predicted by the Sadness dimension of the Affective Neurosciences Personality Scale and Neuroticism of the Big Five Inventory. Nostalgia was associated with both joy and sadness, whereas nonnostalgic and nonautobiographical experiences were associated with irritation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	390-403
Number of pages	14
Journal	Emotion
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019006
State	Published - Jun 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Affective Neurosciences Personality Scale
Big Five Inventory
autobiographical memory
mixed emotions
popular music

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General Psychology

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