APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Nostalgia and Consumers' Product Recycling Decisions

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Social

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

Across five studies, we found that nostalgia (dispositional, situational, or induced by product packaging) enhanced consumers' product recycling intentions, but only when the products were strongly linked to their identity, such as brand or cultural identity.

Motivation