Contents 1. An excursion into nostalgia's Past 76 1.1 A synopsis of 2800 years of history 76 1.2 An inferential error: Nostalgia as a coping mechanism 77 1.3 Nostalgia is for the future 78 2. Definition and properties of nostalgia 78 2.1 Prototype, content, and word-level text analyses 79 2.2 Appraisal techniques, multidimensional scaling analyses, and canonical correlation analyses 79 3. Nostalgia and approach motivation 80 4. Nostalgia and the many forms of approach motivation 81 4.1 Generalized motivation 82 4.2 Localized motivation 88 4.3 Action-oriented motivation 95 5. Summary and conclusions 101 References 102

The motivational potency of nostalgia: The future is called yesterday

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