Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is an ambivalent–albeit more positive than
negative–emotion. Nostalgia is infused with sociality, as it refers to important figures from�…

From the beginning of therapeutic research with psychedelics, music listening has been
consistently used as a method to guide or support therapeutic experiences during the acute�…

We conducted an integrative data analysis to examine the hedonic character of nostalgia.
We combined positive and negative affect measures from 41 experiments manipulating�…

This research article tracks the evolution of the concept of nostalgia as a concept in
marketing and more generally. The present study specifically highlights the development of�…

Background: Music listening is a staple and valued component of psychedelic therapy, and
previous work has shown that psychedelics can acutely enhance music-evoked emotion�…

Ambivalent affective states, such as bittersweetness, nostalgia, and longing, which are felt
as having both positive and negative aspects, are an important component of human�…

Abstract Jaak Panksepp's Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT) belongs to the most
prominent emotion theories in the psychological and psychiatric sciences. ANT proposes the�…

Background and objectives Music has a unique capacity to evoke both strong emotions and
vivid autobiographical memories. Previous music information retrieval (MIR) studies have�…

Nostalgia arises from tender and yearnful reflection on meaningful life events or important
persons from one's past. In the last two decades, the literature has documented a variety of�…

As a predominately positive emotion, nostalgia serves various adaptive functions, including
a recently revealed analgesic effect. The current fMRI study aimed to explore the neural�…