Nostalgia and Its Analgesia

This study found that presentation of nostalgic pictures was associated withenhanced mortality salience, along with increased activation in the right amygdala (Yang et al., 2021). Which is the opposite of previous studies... ReferencesBoym S. (2007).Nostalgia and its discontents.The Hedgehog Review. 9(2):7-19.Routledge C, Arndt J, Sedikides C, Wildschut T. (2008).A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44(1):132-40.Wildschut T, Sedikides C. (2022).Benefits of nostalgia in vulnerable populations.European Review of Social Psychology 27:1-48. Yang Z, Sedikides C, Izuma K, Wildschut T, Kashima ES, Luo YL, Chen J, Cai H. (2021).Nostalgia enhances detection of death threat: neural and behavioral evidence.Scientific Reports 11(1):1-8.Zhang M, Yang Z, Zhong J, Zhang Y, Lin X, Cai H, Kong Y. (2022).Thalamocortical mechanisms for nostalgia-induced analgesia.Journal of Neuroscience 42(14):2963-72.  
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