2026 Tim Wildschut: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	66	2680	2455	301	284	206	19211

Overview

Tim Wildschut is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on social psychology and its various subfields, including gender studies, literature and literary theory, sociology and political science, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

Wildschut's work covers several key topics, notably:

Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
Media, Gender, and Advertising
Media Influence and Health
Social and Cultural Studies
Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

They have published extensively, contributing to journals where they frequently appear. The most common venues for their publications include:

Cognition & Emotion
Emotion
British Journal of Social Psychology
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Several recent papers demonstrate the topical range of Wildschut's research. These include:

"Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons," 2020, Emotion
"The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis," 2020, Emotion Review
"The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
"Self-Continuity," 2022, Annual Review of Psychology
"Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity," 2022, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Their collaborative work includes consistent partnerships with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

Constantine Sedikides
Jianning Dang
Chris Reinders Folmer
Paul A. M. Van Lange

Best Publications

Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions

Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

1634
Citations
Nostalgia Past, Present, and Future

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge

808
Citations
Music-evoked nostalgia: affect, memory, and personality.

Frederick S. Barrett;Kevin J. Grimm;Richard W. Robins;Tim Wildschut

722
Citations
Counteracting Loneliness On the Restorative Function of Nostalgia

Xinyue Zhou;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Ding-Guo Gao

661
Citations
The past makes the present meaningful: nostalgia as an existential resource.

Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

649
Citations
A blast from the past: The terror management function of nostalgia.

Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

583
Citations
Odyssey's end: lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original Homeric meaning.

Erica G. Hepper;Timothy D. Ritchie;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

563
Citations
Beyond the group mind: a quantitative review of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect

Tim Wildschut;Brad Pinter;Jack L. Vevea;Chester A. Insko

514
Citations
Nostalgia as a repository of social connectedness: the role of attachment-related avoidance.

Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

479
Citations
Back to the Future: Nostalgia Increases Optimism

Wing-Yee Cheung;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Erica G. Hepper

424
Citations
To nostalgize: mixing memory with affect and desire

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

410
Citations
Nostalgia: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Xinyue Zhou;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Kan Shi

393
Citations
Nostalgia counteracts self-discontinuity and restores self-continuity

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt

376
Citations
The power of the past: nostalgia as a meaning-making resource

Clay Routledge;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jacob Juhl

344
Citations
Nostalgia as a resource for the self

Matthew Vess;Jamie Arndt;Clay Routledge;Constantine Sedikides

326
Citations
Perceived superiority in close relationships: why it exists and persists.

Caryl E. Rusbult;Paul A. M. Van Lange;Tim Wildschut;Nancy A. Yovetich

314
Citations
Fighting the future with the past: nostalgia buffers existential threat

Jacob Juhl;Clay Routledge;Jamie Arndt;Constantine Sedikides

314
Citations
Pancultural Nostalgia: Prototypical Conceptions Across Cultures

Erica G. Hepper;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Timothy D. Ritchie

299
Citations
Finding meaning in nostalgia.

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

280
Citations
Nostalgia as a Resource for Psychological Health and Well‐Being

Clay Routledge;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides;Jacob Juhl

277
Citations
Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: Uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and consequence (eudaimonic well-being).

Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Wing-Yee Cheung;Clay Routledge

248
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton

Clay Routledge North Dakota State University

Chester A. Insko University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jamie Arndt University of Missouri

Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University

Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg University of Essex

Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast

Daniel M. Cable London Business School

Lowell Gaertner University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Caryl E. Rusbult Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External Links

Personal website of Tim Wildschut

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