A high level in some constructs and personality traits such as meaning of life, self-esteem and nostalgia has in previous research been proposed to function as psychological buffer against anxiety and existential threat. The aim of this study was to experimentally test if nostalgia may also function as a psychological buffer against state anxiety by randomly inducing either a mortality salience (MS) manipulation, or a control manipulation for general elicitation of unpleasant but non-death related thoughts, based on the Terror Management Theory (TMT) framework. 60 participants were recruited using a mix of convenience and chain-referral sampling, data collected digitally using a developed internet based web study portal. Initially nostalgia proneness was measured using the Southhampton Nostalgia Scale (SNS), followed by experimental manipulation and a distraction task. State anxiety was then measured using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults™ (STAI) to determine if high-nostalgia individuals (+1 SD) would exhibit lower state anxiety than low-nostalgia individuals (-1 SD), compared to control condition.