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Review
. 2023 Feb:49:101521.
doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101521. Epub 2022 Nov 26.

Anticipated nostalgia

Wing-Yee Cheung  1
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Review

Anticipated nostalgia

Wing-Yee Cheung. Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Feb.
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Abstract

Anticipated nostalgia is the foreseeing of looking back on life events and expecting to feel nostalgic about it in the future. I review recent findings on the content, affective profile, and psychological benefits of anticipated nostalgia. I also review neurological and cognitive evidence that may explain the mechanism underlying anticipated nostalgia. Finally, I discuss anticipated nostalgia in an applied setting, consumer behavior.

Keywords: Anticipated nostalgia; Emotion; Future projection; Memory formation; Mental time travel.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. None.

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