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Dr R Tim Wildschut PhD

Associate Professor, Director of MSc Research Methods Programme

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Dr R Tim Wildschut is Associate Professor within Psychology at the University of Southampton.

I received my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. I am a recipient of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.

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Research interests

I am a member of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity and the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group.

My main research interests cover various aspects of intergroup conflict and self-relevant emotions, in particular nostalgia. In addition, I am interested in psychological measurement and statistics.

Nostalgia: I am conducting a collaborative program of research that seeks to identify the content, antecedents, and functions of nostalgia. Our initial findings support the idea that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant emotion associated with recall of past experiences involving interaction with close others.

Intergroup conflict: I seek to identify antecedents of intergroup conflict by investigating what differences between intergroup and interindividual relations can account for the fact that intergroup relations are often more conflict prone.

Research group

Centre for Research on Self and Identity (CRSI)

Research project(s)

Using nostalgia to reduce ageism

Anticipated nostalgia

I am a member of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity and the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group.

Articles

Biskas, M., Cheung, W., Juhl, J., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Hepper, E. (2018). A prologue to nostalgia: savoring creates nostalgic memories that foster optimism. Cognition and Emotion, 1-11. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1458705

Van Tilburg, W., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2018). Adverse weather evokes nostalgia. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/0146167218756030

Cheung, W. Y., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Autobiographical memory functions of nostalgia in comparison to rumination and counterfactual thinking: similarity and uniqueness. Memory, 26(2), 229-237. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1346129

Wohl, M., Kim, H. S., Salmon, M., Santesso, D., Wildschut, R., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Discontinuity-induced nostalgia improves the odds 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

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(1), 44-57. DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000059

Luo, Y. L. L., Way, B., Welker, K., DeWall, C. N., Bushman, B. J., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2017). 5HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with nostalgia proneness: The role of neuroticism. Social Neuroscience, 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2017.1414717

Van Tilburg, W., Bruder, M., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Göritz, A. (2017). An appraisal profile of nostalgia. Emotion.

Cheung, W-Y., Wildschut, R., & Sedikides, C. (2017). Autobiographical memory functions of nostalgia in comparison to rumination: Similarity and uniqueness. Memory.

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, 5(2), 301-319. DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v5i2.697

Reinders Folmer, C. P., Wildschut, R., De Cremer, D., & Van Lange (2017). Coping with noise in social dilemmas: group representatives fare worse than individuals because they lack trust in other’s benign intentions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1368430217722036

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, R., & Sedikides, C. (2017). Fighting ageism through nostalgia. European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2317

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, R. (2017). Finding meaning in nostalgia. Review of General Psychology.

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(3), 1-27. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2235

Sedikides, C., CHEUNG, W. I. N. G. Y., Wildschut, R., Hepper, E., Baldursson, E., & Pedersen, B. (2017). Nostalgia motivates pursuit of important goals by increasing meaning in life. European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2318

Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2017). Nostalgia’s place among self-conscious emotions. Cognition and Emotion.

Leunissen, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2017). Why narcissists are unwilling to apologize: the role of empathy and guilt. European Journal of Personality, 31(4), 385–403 . DOI: 10.1002/per.2110, 10.1002/per.2110

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.2015.11.028

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(8), 857-866. DOI: 10.1177/1948550616660158

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Cheung, W. Y., Hepper, E. G., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., ... Vingerhoets, A. J. (2016). Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and consequence (eudaimonic well-being). Emotion, 16(4), 524-539. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000136

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, R. (2016). Past forward: Nostalgia as a motivational force. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1-3. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.01.008

Wildschut, T., Van Horen, F., & Hart, C. (2015). Accountability accentuates interindividual-intergroup discontinuity by enforcing parochialism. Frontiers in Psychology, 1-10. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01789

Abeyta, A., Routledge, C., Roylance, C., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32(3), 406-413. DOI: 10.1177/0265407514533770

Van Dijke, M., Wildschut, T., Leunissen, J. M., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Nostalgia buffers the negative impact of low procedural injustice on cooperation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 127, 15-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.11.005

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2015). Nostalgia counteracts self-discontinuity and restores self-continuity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45(1), 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(10), 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(8), 990-996. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12438

Reid, C. A., Green, J. D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2015). Scent-evoked nostalgia. Memory, 23(2), 157-166. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.876048

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

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

Ellett, L., & Wildschut, T. (2014). Are we all paranoid? The Psychologist, 27, 328-331.

Wildschut, T., Bruder, M., Robertson, S., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Sedikides, C. (2014). Collective nostalgia: a group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 844-863. DOI: 10.1037/a0037760

Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Ritchie, T. D., Yung, Y-F., Hansen, N., ... Zhou, X. (2014). Pancultural nostalgia: prototypical conceptions across cultures. Emotion, 14(4), 733-747. DOI: 10.1037/a0036790

Cheung, W-Y., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Pinter, B. (2014). Uncovering the multifaceted-self in the domain of negative traits: On the muted expression of negative self-knowledge. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(4), 513-525. DOI: 10.1177/0146167213518224

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(11), 1484-1496. DOI: 10.1177/0146167213499187

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Gheorghiu, M. (2013). Combating the mental health stigma with nostalgia. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43(5), 413-422. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1952

Seehusen, J., Cordaro, F., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Blackhart, G. C., ... Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2013). Individual differences in nostalgia proneness: the integrating role of the need to belong. Personality and Individual Differences, 55(8), 904-908. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.020

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(11), 808-818. DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12070

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(1), 130-137. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.09.007

Zhou, X., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Chen, X., Yat-Sen, S., & Vingerhoets, J. J. M. (2012). Heartwarming memories: nostalgia maintains physiological comfort. Emotion.

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(3), 290-298. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1865

Vess, M., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Nostalgia as a resource for the self. Self and Identity, 11(3), 273-284. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2010.521452

Zhou, X., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Shi, K., & Feng, C. (2012). Nostalgia: the gift that keeps on giving. Journal of Consumer Research, 39(1), 39-50.

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(1), 102-119. DOI: 10.1037/a0025167

Routledge, C., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Juhl, J., & Arndt, J. (2012). The power of the past: nostalgia as a meaning-making resource. Memory, 20(5), 452-460. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.677452

Hart, C. M., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., Routledge, C., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2011). Nostalgic recollections of high and low narcissists. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(2), 238-242. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2011.01.002

Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Gidron, Y. (2011). Self-concept clarity mediates the relation between stress and subjective well-being. Self and Identity, 10(4), 493-508. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2010.493066

Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Hart, C. M., Juhl, J., ... Schlotz, W. (2011). The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(3), 638-652. DOI: 10.1037/a0024292

Juhl, J., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2010). Fighting the future with the past: nostalgia buffers existential threat. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(3), 309-314. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.02.006

Cohen, T. R., Wildschut, T., & Insko, C. A. (2010). How communication increases interpersonal cooperation in mixed-motive situations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(1), 39-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.009

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(3), 390-403. DOI: 10.1037/a0019006

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Routledge, C., Arndt, J., & Cordaro, F. (2010). Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: the role of attachment-related avoidance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(4), 573-586. DOI: 10.1037/a0017597

Routledge, C., Arndt, A., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2008). A blast from the past: the terror management function of nostalgia. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(1), 132-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.11.001

Zhou, X., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Ding-Guo, G. (2008). Counteracting loneliness: on the restorative function of nostalgia. Psychological Science, 19(10), 1023-1029. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02194.x

Wolf, S. T., Insko, C. A., Kirchner, J. L., & Wildschut, T. (2008). Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity in the domain of correspondent outcomes: The role of relativistic concern, perceived categorization, and the doctrine of mutual assured destruction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(3), 279-294. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.94.3.479

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Routledge, C. (2008). Nostalgia: from cowbells to the meaning of life. The Psychologist, 21, 20-23.

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (2008). Nostalgia: past, present, and future. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(5), 304-307. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00595.x

Wildschut, T., & Insko, C. A. (2007). Explanations of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: A review of the evidence. European Review of Social Psychology, 18(1), 175-211. DOI: 10.1080/10463280701676543

Wildschut, T., Insko, C. A., & Pinter, B. (2007). Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity as a joint function of acting as a group and interacting with a group. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 390-399.

Pinter, B., Insko, C. A., Wildschut, T., Kirchner, J. L., Montoya, R. M., & Wolf, S. T. (2007). Reduction of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: The role of leader accountability and proneness to guilt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(2), 250-265.

Pinter, B., Insko, C. A., Wildschut, T., Kirchner, J. L., Montoya, R. M., & Wolf, S. T. (2007). Reduction of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: the role of leader accountability and proneness to guilt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(2), 250-265. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.2.250

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (2006). Nostalgia: content, triggers, functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(5), 975-993. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.5.975

Insko, C. A., Kirchner, J. L., Pinter, B., Efaw, J., & Wildschut, T. (2005). Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity as a function of trust and categorization: The paradox of expected cooperation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(2), 365-385.

Wildschut, T., Pinter, B., Vevea, J. L., Insko, C. A., & Schopler, J. (2003). Beyond the group mind: a quantitative review of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect. Psychological Bulletin, 129(5), 698-722. DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.5.698

Wildschut, T., Insko, C. A., & Gaertner, L. (2002). Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(6), 975-992. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.975

Lodewijkx, H. F. M., Wildschut, T., Savenije, W., Smit, M., & Nijstad, B. (2001). In a violent world a just world makes sense: the case of "senseless violence" in The Netherlands. Social Justice Research, 14(1), 79-94.

Insko, C. A., Schopler, J., Gaertner, L., Wildschut, T., Kozar, R., Pinter, B., ... Montoya, M. R. (2001). Interindividual-intergroup discontinuity reduction through the anticipation of future interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(1), 95-111.

Wildschut, T., Lodewijkx, H. F. M., & Insko, C. A. (2001). Toward a reconciliation of diverging perspectives on interindividual-intergroup discontinuity: The role of procedural interdependence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37(4), 273-285. DOI: 10.1006/jesp.2000.1452

Schopler, J., Insko, C. A., Wieselquist, J., Pemberton, M., Witcher, B., Kozar, R., ... Wildschut, T. (2001). When groups are more competitive than individuals: The domain of the discontinuity effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(4), 632-644.

Rusbult, C. E., Van Lange, P. A. M., Wildschut, T., Yovetich, N. A., & Verette, J. (2000). Perceived superiority in close relationships: Why it exists and persists. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(4), 521-545.

Review

Zou, X., Cable, D., Wildschut, R., & Sedikides, C. (2017). Nostalgia for host culture facilitates repatriation success: the role of self-continuity. Self and Identity.

Book Chapters

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, R., & Grouzet, F. (2017). On the temporal navigation of selfhood: The role of self-continuity: the role of self-continuity. In On the temporal navigation of selfhood: the role of self-continuity

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, R., Juhl, J., & Cheung, W-Y. (2017). The psychological functions of nostalgia. In F. Grouzet (Ed.), Oxford handbook of Psychology of Time Travel and Temporality Oxford University Press.

Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2015). Nostalgia. In S. Lopez (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology (2nd edition) London, GB: Wiley.

Routledge, C., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., & Juhl, J. (2013). Finding meaning in one's past: nostalgia as an existential resource. In K. D. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. J. Lindberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Meaning (pp. 297-316). Washington, US: American Psychological Association.

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Cordaro, F. (2011). Self-regulatory interplay between negative and positive emotions: The case of loneliness and nostalgia. In I. Nyklíček, A. Vingerhoets, & M. Zeelenberg (Eds.), Emotion Regulation and Well-Being (pp. 67-83). London, GB: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6953-8_5

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

Wildschut, T., & Insko, C. A. (2010). Interindividual--intergroup discontinuity. In J. M. Levine, & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Thousand Oaks, USA: SAGE.

Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2009). Nostalgia. In H. T. Reis, & S. K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships Thousand Oaks, USA: SAGE.

Wildschut, T., & Insko, C. A. (2006). A paradox of individual and group morality: Social psychology as empirical philosophy. In P. A. M. Van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology: Benefits of transdisciplinary approaches (pp. 377-384). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Arndt, J., & Routledge, C. (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, USA: Psychology Press.

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, R., & Baden, D. (2004). Nostalgia: conceptual issues and existential functions. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 200-214). New York, USA: Guildford Press.

Wildschut, T., Insko, C. A., & Pinter, B. (2004). The perception of outgroup threat: content and activation of the outgroup schema. In V. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The Psychology of Group Perception (pp. 335-361). Psychology Press.

Rusbult, C. E., Kumashiro, M., Finkel, E. J., & Wildschut, T. (2002). The war of the roses: an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness. In P. Noller, & J. A. Feeney (Eds.), Understanding marriage: developments in the study of couple interaction (Advances in Personal Relationships). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Conferences

Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2010). A prototype analysis of nostalgia. Poster session presented at 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, United States.

Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2009). What is nostalgia? A prototype analysis. Paper presented at Annual Meeting for United Kingdom Branch of European Social Cognition Network, United Kingdom.

Baden, D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2004). Nostalgia as a defence mechanism against loneliness. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Annual Conference, .

Baden, D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2003). Nostalgia as a self-relevant emotion: triggers, content and functions. Paper presented at BPS Social Psychology Section Conference, .

I teach on the following modules:

SYC 1005: Thinking Psychologically

PSYC 1012: Empirical Studies 1

PSYC 2003: Social Psychology

PSYC 3024: Self-Conscious Emotions

PSYC 3003: Empirical Project: Literature Review

PSYC 3005: Empirical Project: Research Paper

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