The present study used the mortality salience paradigm to test experimentally the discontinuity hypothesis that nostalgia emerges in response to threats to the continuity of identity. Forty-seven university students were primed to think about their own death, taking a difficult exam, or watching television. Following a delay, participants completed two measures of nostalgia. Participants in the...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...

Nostalgia, to some people, may seem foolhardy in a way. However, nostalgia is a completely and intensely private but social, collective emotion. It has continuing consequence and outgrowth for our lives as social actions. It leads people to hunt and explore remembrance of persons and places of our past in an effort to confer meaning of persons and places of present. In the ‘Poems of 1912-13’ Th...