The Benefits of Star Matrix: The Scientific Evidence From Southampton University UK

Focusing their test subjects on POSITIVE memories, the following benefits were discoverd and used in the titles of their publications.

The original publications lists is added below.

• self-continuity and meaning in life
• feeling safe
• healthy aging
• self-continuity
• identity narrative stability
• well-being
• psychological benefits
• reducing social distance
• restorative power
• thwarting loneliness
• fosters relational and collective engagement
• shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons
• strengthens global self-continuity through holistic thinking
• promotes help seeking by fostering social connectedness
• fosters identity integration
• a resource for the bereaved
• declines in distress
• enhances detection of death threat
• empathy
• prosocial behavior.
• motivational potency
• social connectedness to
• self-continuity
• counteracts the negative relation between threat appraisals and intrinsic motivation in an educational context
• foster optimism
• sociality
• promotes intrinsic motivation
• infuses life with meaning from social connectedness to self-continuity
• psychological and mnemonic benefits for people with dementia
• lowers turnover intentions by increasing work meaning
• shapes and potentiates the future
• fighting ageism
• sociality and intergenerational transfer of older adults
• improves the odds of a self-reported quit attempt among people living with addiction
• facilitates repatriation success
• prejudice reduction
• increases optimism (via social connectedness and self-esteem)
• a motivational force
• confers psychological health benefits
• social connectedness and eudaimonic well-being
• promoting relationship aspirations and
• overcoming relationship challenges
• counteracts self-discontinuity
• buffers the negative impact of injustice
• fosters creativity through openness to experience
• weakens the desire for money
• promote a peaceful future
• mitigates existential threat induced self-sacrifice
• regulates avoidance and approach motivation
• confers unique benefits on the group
• increases optimism
• bolsters perceptions of a meaningful self in a meaningful world
• an existential resource
• resource for psychological health and well-being
• combating the mental health stigma
• an antidote to boredom
• a meaning-making resource
• improves attitudes toward persons
• a resource for the self
• the gift that keeps on giving
• maintains physiological comfort
• an existential resource
• emotion regulation and well-being
• death-anxiety buffering function
• a repository of social connectedness
• buffering acculturative stress and
• facilitating cultural adaptation
• terror management function
• Counteracting loneliness
• restorative function

Note 1: The researchers are researching "nostalgia," which is actually deemed to be a mental disorder, whereby a patient becomes very depressed because they conceive of their past as having been far better than their present. They are and were not researching actual Star Memories. However, they were directing their subjects to think about POSITIVE memories of the past. Star Matrix is far more directive and consciously uses Star Memories in a direct path to the benefits this produces.

Note 2: The term "nostalgia" was first coined by a Swiss medical student in 1688 (not a typo, sixteen eighty eight) “MEDICAL DISSERTATION ON NOSTALGIA BY JOHANNES HOFER, 1688.” It specifically denotes the PAIN a person in the here & now is experiencing when thinking about good events in the past. That is clearly not Star Matrix.

Note 3: The following citations are from end of 2022. There is no doubt that these researchers will continue to research and publish in the future, and therefore even more benefits and applications of using POSITIVE memories will become apparent to them. Check this link for the current list. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/nostalgia/publications.page

The List Of Published Articles:

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/nostalgia/publications.page
 

2022

Biskas, M., Juhl, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Saroglou, V. (2022). Nostalgia and spirituality: The roles of self-continuity and meaning in life. Social Psychology, 53(3), 152–162. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000487

Dodd, E., Ismail, S., Christopher, G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Cheston, R. (2022). Nostalgic conversations: The co-production of an intervention package for people living with dementia and their spouse. Dementia, 21(2), 489-501. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211047350

Fleury, J., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Coon, D., & Komnenich, P. (2022). Feeling safe and nostalgia in healthy aging. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 843051. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.843051

Hong, E. K., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2022). How does nostalgia conduce to self-continuity? The roles of identity narrative, associative links, and stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 735-749. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211024889

Ismail, S., Dodd, E., Christopher, G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Cheston, R. (2021). The content and function of nostalgic memories of people living with dementia. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 94(4), 436-459. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914150211024185

Layous, K., Kurtz, J. L., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). The effect of a multi-week nostalgia intervention on well-being: Mechanisms and moderation. Emotion, 22(8), 1952-1968. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000817

Sedikides, C., Leunissen, J. M., & Wildschut, T. (2022). The psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia. Psychology of Music, 50(6), 2044-2062. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211064641

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2022). Nostalgia across cultures. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 16, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/18344909221091649

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). Reducing social distance caused by weight stigma: Nostalgia changes behavior toward overweight individuals. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(6), 429–438. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12869

Wildschut, R. T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). The measurement of nostalgia. In W. Ruch, A. B., Bakker, L. Tay, & F. Gander (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology assessment (pp. 438-451). Hogrefe.

Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2022). Psychology and nostalgia: Towards a functional approach. In M. H. Jacobsen (Ed.), Intimations of nostalgia: Multidisciplinary explorations of an enduring emotion (pp. 110-128). Bristol University Press.

Yang, Z., Wildschut, T., Izuma, K., Gu, R., Luo, Y. L. L., Cai, H., & Sedikides, C. (2022). Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: A social-cognitive neuroscience perspective. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(12), 1131–1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac036

Zhou, X., Sedikides, C., Mo. T., Li, W., Hong, E., & Wildschut, T. (2022). The restorative power of nostalgia: Thwarting loneliness by raising happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(4), 803-815. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/U5RJB

 2021

Evans, N. D., Reyes, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Fetterman, A. K. (2021). Mental transportation mediates nostalgia’s psychological benefits. Cognition and Emotion, 35(1), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1806788

Frankenbach, J., Wildschut, T., Juhl, J., & Sedikides, C. (2020). Does neuroticism disrupt the psychological benefits of nostalgia? A meta-analytic test. European Journal of Personality, 35(2), 249-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/10.1002/per.2276

Green, J. D., Cairo, A. H., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2021). The ties that bind: University nostalgia fosters relational and collective university engagement. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 580731. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.580731

Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Robertson, S., & Routledge, C. D. (2021). Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons. Emotion, 21(3), 644-664. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000728

Hong, E. K., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2021). Nostalgia strengthens global self-continuity through holistic thinking. Cognition and Emotion, 35(4), 730-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1862064

Jiang, T., Cheung, W.-Y., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2021). Nostalgia, reflection, brooding: Psychological benefits and autobiographical memory functions. Consciousness and Cognition, 90, 103107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103107

Juhl, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Xiong, X., & Zhou, X. (2021). Nostalgia promotes help seeking by fostering social connectedness. Emotion, 21(3), 631-643. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000720

Leunissen, J.M., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Routledge, C. (2021). The hedonic character of nostalgia: An integrative data analysis. Emotion Review, 13(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073920950455  

Petkanopoulou, K., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2021). Nostalgia and biculturalism: How host-culture nostalgia fosters bicultural identity integration. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52(2), 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120988345

Reid, C. A., Green, J. D., Short, S. D., Willis, K. D., Moloney, J. M., Collison, E. A., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Gramling, S. (2021). The past as a resource for the bereaved: Nostalgia predicts declines in distress. Cognition and Emotion, 35(2) 256-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1825339

Smeekes, A., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2021). Longing for the “good old days” of our country: National nostalgia as a new master-frame of populist radical-right parties. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, 90-102. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.78 

Stefaniak, A., Wohl, M. J. A., Sedikides, C., Smeekes, A., & Wildschut, T. (2021). Different pasts for different political folk: Political orientation predicts collective nostalgia content. Frontiers in Political Science, 3: 63368. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.633688

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Smeekes, A. (2021). Nostalgia and populism: An empirical psychological perspective. Zeithistorische Forschungen|Studies in Contemporary History, 18, 125-132. https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2297

Yang, Z., Sedikides, C., Izuma, K., Wildschut, T., Kashima, E. S., Luo, Y. L. L., Chen, J., & Cai, H. (2021). Nostalgia enhances detection of death threat: Neural and behavioral evidence. Scientific Reports, 11: 12662. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91322-z

 2020

Abakoumkin, G., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2020). Nostalgia proneness and the collective self. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 570621.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.570621

Cheung, W.-Y., Hepper, E. G., Reid, C. A., Green, J. D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2020). Anticipated nostalgia: Looking forward to looking back. Cognition and Emotion, 34(3), 511-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1649247

Juhl, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Diebel, T., Cheung, W. Y., & Vingerhoets, A. J. (2020). Nostalgia proneness and empathy: Generality, underlying mechanism, and implications for prosocial behavior. Journal of Personality, 88, 485-500. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.1250

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2020). The motivational potency of nostalgia: The future is called yesterday. Advances in Motivation Science, 7, 75-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adms.2019.05.001

Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2020). The psychology of nostalgia: Delineating the emotion’s nature and functions. In M. H. Jacobson (Ed.), Nostalgia now: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on the past in the present (p. 47-65). Routledge Press.

 

2019

Abakoumkin, G., Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). From nostalgia through social connectedness to self-continuity: Replication and extension. Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 16, 127-144.

Bialobrzeska, O., Elliot, A. J., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). Nostalgia counteracts the negative relation between threat appraisals and intrinsic motivation in an educational context. Learning and Individual Differences, 69, 219-224. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2018.04.011

Biskas, M., Cheung, W.-Y., Juhl, J., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Hepper, E. G. (2019). A prologue to nostalgia: Savoring creates nostalgic memories that foster optimism. Cognition and Emotion, 33(3), 417-427. doi:10.1080/02699931.2018.1458705

Luo, Y. L. L. Way, B., Welker, K., DeWall, C. N., Bushman, B. J., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). 5HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with nostalgia proneness: The role of neuroticism. Social Neuroscience, 14(2), 183-190. doi:10.1080/17470919.2017.1414717

Sedikides C., & Wildschut, T. (2019). The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia. European Review of Social Psychology, 30(1), 23-173. doi:10.1080/10463283.2019.1630098

Van Dijke, M., Leunissen, J. M., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). Nostalgia promotes intrinsic motivation and effort in the presence of low interaction justice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 150, 46-61. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.12.003

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Bruder, M., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Göritz, A. S. (2019). An appraisal profile of nostalgia. Emotion, 19(1), 21-36. doi:10.1037/emo0000417

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2019). How nostalgia infuses life with meaning: from social connectedness to self-continuity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 521-532. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2519

Zou, X., Lee, M., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). Nostalgia increases financial risk-taking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(5), 907-919. doi:10.1177/0146167218799717

Zhou, X., Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Mei, D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2019). Hungering for the past: Nostalgic food labels increase purchase intentions and actual consumption. Appetite, 140, 151-158. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.007

 

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Alowidy, D. (2019). Hanin: Nostalgia among Syrian refugees. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(7), 1368-1384. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2590
2018

Cheung, W.-Y., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Autobiographical memory functions of nostalgia in comparison to rumination: Similarity and uniqueness. Memory, 26, 229-237.  doi:10.1080/09658211.2017.1346129

Ismail, S., Christopher, G., Dodd, E., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ingram, T. A., Jones, R. W., Nooman, K. A., Tingley, D., & Cheston, R. (2018). Psychological and mnemonic benefits of nostalgia for people with dementia. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 65, 1327-1344. doi:10.3233/JAD-180075

Leunissen, J. M., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Cohen, T. R. (2018). Organizational nostalgia lowers turnover intentions by increasing work meaning: The moderating role of burnout. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 23, 44-57. doi:10.1037/ocp0000059

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2018). Finding meaning in nostalgia. Review of General Psychology, 22(1), 48-61. doi:10.1037/gpr0000109

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Stephan, E. (2018). Nostalgia shapes and potentiates the future. In J. P. Forgas & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), The social psychology of living well (pp. 181-199). New York, NY: Routledge

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Fighting ageism through nostalgia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 196-208. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2317

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2018). Adverse weather evokes nostalgia. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 984-995. doi:10.1177/0146167218756030

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Nostalgia’s place among self-conscious emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 742-759. doi:10.1080/02699931.2017.1351331

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Robertson, S. (2018). Sociality and intergenerational transfer of older adults’ nostalgia. Memory, 26, 1030-1041. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1470645

Wohl, M. J. A., Kim, H. S., Salmon, M., Santesso, D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Self-discontinuity-induced nostalgia improves the odd of a self-reported quit attempt among people living with addiction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 83-94. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.011

 

Zou, X., Wildschut, T., Cable, D., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: The role of self-continuity. Self and Identity, 17, 327-342. doi:10.1080/15298868.2017.1378123
2017

Abakoumkin, G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Bakarou, M. (2017). Nostalgia in response to group-based exclusion: The role of attachment-related avoidance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 373–381. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2235
Cheung, W.-Y., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2017). Nostalgia and prejudice reduction. Personality and Individual Differences, 109, 89-97. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.045

Cheung, W.-Y., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Tausch, N., & Ayanian, A. H. (2017). Collective nostalgia is associated with stronger outgroup-directed anger and participation in ingroup-favoring collective action. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, jspp.psychopen.eu | 2195-3325.

2016
Cheung, W. Y., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2016). Induced nostalgia increases optimism (via social connectedness and self-esteem) among individuals high, but not low, in trait nostalgia. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 283-288. doi:10.1016/j.paid.20215.11.028

Luo, Y. L. L., Liu, Y., Cai, H., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2016). Nostalgia and self-enhancement: Phenotypic and genetic approaches. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 857-866. doi:10.1177/1948550616660158

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2016a). Past forward: Nostalgia as a motivational force. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 319-321. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.01.008

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2016b). Nostalgia: A bittersweet emotion that confers psychological health benefits. In J. Johnson & A. Wood (Eds.), The handbook of positive clinical psychology (pp. 25-136). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Cheung, W.-Y., Routledge, C., Hepper, E. G., Arndt, J., Vail, K., Zhou, X., Brackstone, K., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2016). Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: Uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and the consequence (eudaimonic well-being). Emotion, 16, 524-539. doi:10.1037/emo0000136

2015
Abeyta, A. A., Routledge, C., & Juhl, J. (2015). Looking back to move forward: Nostalgia as a psychological resource for promoting relationship aspirations and overcoming relationship challenges. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 1029-1044. doi:10.1037/pspi0000036
Abeyta, A., Routledge, C., Roylance, C., Wildschut, R. T., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 406-413. doi:10.1177/0265407514533770

Reid, C. A., Green, J. D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Scent-evoked nostalgia. Memory, 23, 157-166. doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.876048

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Hepper, E. G., & Zhou, X. (2015). To nostalgize: Mixing memory with affect and desire. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 189-273. doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2014.10.001

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2015). Nostalgia counteracts self-discontinuity and restores self-continuity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 52-61. doi:10.1002/ejsp.2073
Stephan, E., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Cheung, W. Y., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2015). Nostalgia-evoked inspiration: Mediating mechanisms and motivational implications. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1395-1410. doi:10.1177/0146167215596985
Tullett, A. M., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Inzlicht, M. (2015). Right-frontal cortical asymmetry predicts increased proneness to nostalgia. Psychophysiology, 52, 990-996. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12438

Van Dijke, M., Wildschut, T., Leunissen, J., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Nostalgia buffers the negative impact of low procedural injustice on cooperation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 127, 15-29.
Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2015). The mnemonic muse: Nostalgia fosters creativity through openness to experience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59, 1-7. doi: 10.1016//j.jesp.2015.02.002

2014

Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y.-F., Hansen, N., Abakoumkin, G., Arikan, G., Cisek, S. Z., Demassosso, D. B., Gebauer, J. E., Gerber, J. P., González, R., Kusumi, T., Misra, G., Rusu, M., Ryan, O., Stephan, E., Vingerhoets, A. J. J., & Zhou, X. (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: Prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14, 733-747. htpp://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0036790

Lasaleta, J. D., Sedikides, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2014). Nostalgia weakens the desire for money. Journal of Consumer Research, 41, 713-729. doi: 10.1086/677227

Routledge, C., Juhl, J., Abeyta, A., & Roylance, C. (2014). Using the past to promote a peaceful future: Nostalgia proneness mitigates existential threat induced nationalistic self-sacrifice. Social Psychology, 45, 339-346. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000172

Stephan, E., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Zhou, X., He, W., Routledge, C., Cheung, W. Y., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2014). The mnemonic mover: Nostalgia regulates avoidance and approach motivation. Emotion, 14, 545-561. doi: 10.1037/a0035673

Wildschut, T., Bruder, M., Robertson, S., Van Tilburg, A. P. W., & Sedikides, C. (2014). Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 844-863. doi: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/107/5/844/

2013

Cheung, W. Y., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Hepper, E. G., Arndt, J., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2013). Back to the future: Nostalgia increases optimism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1484-1496.

Juhl, J., & Routledge, C. (2013). Nostalgia bolsters perceptions of a meaningful self in a meaningful world. In J. Hicks & C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Perspectives from the psychological sciences (pp. 213-226). New York, NY: Springer Press.

Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Juhl, J. (2013). Finding meaning in the past: Nostalgia as an existential resource. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of meaning (pp. 297-316). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Routledge, C., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Juhl, J. (2013). Nostalgia as a resource for psychological health and well-being. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 808-818.

Seehusen, J., Cordaro, F., Wildschut, T., Sedikides. C., Routledge, C., Blackhart, G. C., & Epstude, K., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2013). Individual differences in nostalgia proneness: The integrating role of the need to belong. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 904-908.

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Gheorghiu, M. (2013). Combating the mental health stigma with nostalgia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 413-422.

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Igou, E. R., & Sedikides, C. (2013). In search of meaningfulness: Nostalgia as an antidote to boredom. Emotion, 13, 450-461.

2012

Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Odyssey’s end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original Homeric meaning. Emotion, 12, 102-119.

Juhl, J., Sand, E., & Routledge, C. (2012). The effects of nostalgia and avoidant attachment on relationship satisfaction and romantic motives. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29, 661–670.

Routledge, C., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Juhl, J., & Arndt, J. (2012). The power of the past: Nostalgia as a meaning-making resource. Memory, 20, 452-460.

Stephan, E., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Mental travel into the past: Differentiating recollections of nostalgic, ordinary, and positive events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 290-298.

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2012). Dropping the weight stigma: Nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 130-137.
    

Vess, M., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Nostalgia as a resource for the self. Self and Identity, 3, 273-284.
    

Zhou, X., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Shi, K., & Feng, C. (2012). Nostalgia: The gift that keeps on giving. Journal of Consumer Research, 39, 39-50.
    

Zhou, X., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Chen, X., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2012). Heartwarming memories: Nostalgia maintains physiological comfort. Emotion, 12, 678-684.
    

2011
    

Hart, C. M., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., & Vingerhoets, Ad J. J. M. (2011). Nostalgic recollections of high and low narcissists. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 238-242.
    

Routledge C., Arndt, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Hart, C., Juhl, J., Vingerhoets, A. J., & Scholtz, W. (2011). The past makes the present meaningful: Nostalgia as an existential resource. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 638-652.
    

Wildschut, C., Sedikides, C., & Cordaro, F. (2011). Self-regulatory interplay between negative and positive emotions: The case of loneliness and nostalgia. In I. Nyklicek, A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, & M. Zeelenberg (Eds.), Emotion regulation and well-being (pp. 67-83). New York, NY: Springer.
    

2010
    

Barrett, F. S., Grimm, K. J., Robins, R. W., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Janata, P. (2010). Music-evoked nostalgia: Affect, memory, and personality. Emotion, 10, 390-403.
    

Juhl, J., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2010). Fighting the future with the past: On the death-anxiety buffering function of nostalgia. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 309-314.
    

Gebauer, J., & Sedikides, C. (2010). Yearning for yesterday: Dwell on the past— It’s good for you. Scientific American Mind, 23, 30-35. doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0710-30
    

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Cordaro, P. (2010). Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: The role of attachment-related avoidance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 573-586.
    

2009
    

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C. R, Arndt, J., & Zhou, X. (2009). Buffering acculturative stress and facilitating cultural adaptation: Nostalgias as a psychological resource. In R. S. Wyer, Jr., C.-y. Chiu, & Y.-y. Hong (Eds.), Understanding culture: Theory, research, and application (pp. 361-378). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
    

Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2009). Nostalgia. In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships (Vol. 2, pp. 1168-1170). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.
    

2008
    

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2008). A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 132-140.
    

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (2008). Nostalgia: past, present, and future. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 304-307.
    

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Gaertner, L., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2008). Nostalgia as enabler of self-continuity. In F. Sani (Ed.), Self-continuity: Individual and collective perspectives (pp. 227-239). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Zhou, X, Sedikides, C., Wildschut, C., & Gao, D.-G. (2008). Counteracting loneliness: On the restorative function of nostalgia. Psychological Science, 19, 1023-1029.
    

2006    

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. D. (2006). Affect and the self. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior: Frontiers in social psychology (pp. 197-215). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
    

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. D. (2006). Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 975-993.
    

2004
    
Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Baden, D. (2004). Nostalgia: Conceptual issues and existential functions. In J. Greenberg, S. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental existential psychology (pp. 200-214). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Star Matrix is not "nostalgia."

Star Matrix is a methodology by which the most important Star Events are brought back into consciousness, to raise energy and to inform the person whose real lived experiences these Star Memories represent.

The purpose of Star Matrix is to correct an entirely erroneous self concept, and to replace the old disconnected and unstable self concept with a brand new one, that is 100% reality based, proven by that person's own lived experience, without fantasy or illusion: The Star Matrix.

We do this in order to learn more about our Star Events, and how to have MORE Star Events in the future.

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