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Nostalgia is “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition,” according to Merriam-Webster.
It’s a “mixed emotional experience, so when we’re nostalgic, we may experience a sense of loss and longing. But we also experience positive emotions such as happiness [and] gratitude,” according to Andrew Abeyta, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Rutgers University in Camden, N.J.
Adults playing Game Boys at bars, Gen Zers with flip phones and music artists sampling classic tunes in their new hit songs are all proof that nostalgia is something we gravitate towards, and are willing to pay for.
But what’s so attractive about the feeling? We talked to Abeyta, who studies nostalgia, to get to the bottom of why the emotion is so desirable and if it’s actually good for us. Here’s what he says.
Read the full article at CNBC.
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