Erica Hepper

Erica Hepper

Erica Hepper is a researcher and first author of the 2014 paper on pancultural nostalgia.

Who they are

Erica Hepper is a researcher and first author of the 2014 paper on pancultural nostalgia. On this site the name is tied to Pancultural Nostalgia, Nostalgia.

Key papers

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.

Key ideas

Pancultural Nostalgia: The finding that people in many countries agree on the central features of nostalgia.

Nostalgia: A past-oriented, self-relevant and bittersweet emotion, a fond remembering of one's own history that carries loss inside the pleasure.

Sources

  1. 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.