Editing Nostalgia (section)

===Promoting psychological growth===
Nostalgia makes people more willing to engage in growth-oriented behaviors and encourages them to view themselves as growth-oriented people. Baldwin & Landau (2014) found that nostalgia leads people to rate themselves higher on items like "I am the kind of person who embraces unfamiliar people, events, and places." Nostalgia also increased interest in growth-related behavior such as "I would like to explore someplace that I have never been before." In the first study, these effects were [[Mediation (statistics)|statistically mediated]] by nostalgia-induced positive affect—the extent to which nostalgia made participants feel good. In the second study, nostalgia led to the same growth outcomes but the effects were statistically mediated by nostalgia-induced self-esteem.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Baldwin | first1 = M. | last2 = Landau | first2 = M.J. | year = 2014 | title = Exploring nostalgia's influence on psychological growth | journal = Self and Identity | volume = 13 | issue = 2| pages = 162–177 | doi = 10.1080/15298868.2013.772320 | s2cid = 6319780 }}</ref>