Pancultural Nostalgia
The finding that people in many countries agree on the central features of nostalgia.
What it is
Students from 18 countries (N = 1,704) rated 35 features and agreed strongly on which were central, supporting the view that nostalgia is a pancultural emotion.
In effect
The article on why many people are nostalgic for the 2000s and 2016 uses it to show the emotion is not particular to one decade.
What it does not say
The sample was students in 18 countries, so it shows agreement among students and not among every age group or community. It does not say that nostalgia feels the same everywhere.
Sources
- Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y.-F., Hansen, N., and others (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14(4), 733-747.