Nostalgia information

The archives director for *The Saturday Evening Post* said that the magazine has been regarded with "a mixture of nostalgia and affection".^[1] Shown: a Norman Rockwell cover from August 1924.

Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.^[2] The word nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "sorrow" or "despair", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home.^[3] Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the early modern period,^[4] it became an important trope in Romanticism.^[2]

Nostalgia is associated with a longing for the past, its personalities, possibilities, and events, especially the "good old days" or a "warm childhood".^[5] There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, for people to view the past more positively and future more negatively.^[6]^[7]^[8] When applied to one's beliefs about a society or institution, this is called declinism, which has been described as "a trick of the mind" and as "an emotional strategy, something comforting to snuggle up to when the present day seems intolerably bleak."^[9]

The scientific literature on nostalgia usually refers to nostalgia regarding one's personal life and has mainly studied the effects of nostalgia as induced during these studies. Emotion is a strong evoker of nostalgia due to the processing of these stimuli first passing through the amygdala, the emotional seat of the brain. These recollections of one's past are usually important events, people one cares about, and places where one has spent time. Cultural phenomena such as music,^[10] movies, television shows,^[11] and video games,^[12] as well as natural phenomena such as weather and environment^[13] can also be strong triggers of nostalgia.

^ Mills, Wes (July 6, 2021). "Saturday Evening Post Celebrates 200 Years". Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on November 19, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Boym, Svetlana (2002). The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books. pp. xiii–xiv. ISBN 978-0-465-00708-0.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Fuentenebro; de Diego, F; Valiente, C (2014). "Nostalgia: a conceptual history". History of Psychiatry. 25 (4): 404–411. doi:10.1177/0957154X14545290. PMID 25395438.
^ Cite error: The named reference NYMag20160225 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Sedikides, Constantine; Wildschut, Tim; Arndt, Jamie; Routledge, Clay (October 2008). "Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17 (5): 304–307. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00595.x. S2CID 220389609.
^ The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang edited by Grant Barrett, p. 90.
^ Etchells, Pete (January 16, 2015). "Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
^ Steven R. Quartz, The State Of The World Isn't Nearly As Bad As You Think, Edge Foundation, Inc., retrieved 2016-02-17
^ Lewis, Jemima (January 16, 2016). "Why we yearn for the good old days". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
^ "Music-Evoked Nostalgia".
^ Nelakonda, Divya. "Binging on nostalgia – why we replay TV from our youth". the Epic. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
^ McCarthy, Anne. "Why Retro-Looking Games Get So Much Love". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
^ "Study: Nostalgia Makes Us Warm, and Cold Makes Us Nostalgic". The Atlantic. 2012-12-04.

[InsideIndBus_20210706-1] Mills, Wes (July 6, 2021). "Saturday Evening Post Celebrates 200 Years". Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on November 19, 2021.

[boym-2] Boym, Svetlana (2002). The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books. pp. xiii–xiv. ISBN 978-0-465-00708-0.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Fuentenebro; de Diego, F; Valiente, C (2014). "Nostalgia: a conceptual history". History of Psychiatry. 25 (4): 404–411. doi:10.1177/0957154X14545290. PMID 25395438.

[NYMag20160225-4] Cite error: The named reference NYMag20160225 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] Sedikides, Constantine; Wildschut, Tim; Arndt, Jamie; Routledge, Clay (October 2008). "Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 17 (5): 304–307. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00595.x. S2CID 220389609.

[6] The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang edited by Grant Barrett, p. 90.

[The_Guardian-7] Etchells, Pete (January 16, 2015). "Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

[8] Steven R. Quartz, The State Of The World Isn't Nearly As Bad As You Think, Edge Foundation, Inc., retrieved 2016-02-17

[The_Telegraph-9] Lewis, Jemima (January 16, 2016). "Why we yearn for the good old days". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

[psychologytoday.com-10] "Music-Evoked Nostalgia".

[nelakonda-11] Nelakonda, Divya. "Binging on nostalgia – why we replay TV from our youth". the Epic. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

[mccarthy-12] McCarthy, Anne. "Why Retro-Looking Games Get So Much Love". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

[weather-13] "Study: Nostalgia Makes Us Warm, and Cold Makes Us Nostalgic". The Atlantic. 2012-12-04.

Nostalgia information

and 23 Related for: Nostalgia information

Nostalgia

Future Nostalgia

Nostalgia Critic

The Nostalgia of the Infinite

Communist nostalgia

Club Future Nostalgia

Ostalgie

1980s

Habsburg Myth

Future Nostalgia Tour

Nostalgia for the Soviet Union

Nostalgia for the Light

Retrofuturism

YTA TV

Nostalgia consumption

Nostalgia for Infinity

Nostalgia 77

Rod Wave

Dua Lipa

Lindsay Ellis

Radical Optimism

The Ministry of Nostalgia

Lost Cause of the Confederacy

Emotions
Part of a series on

Affect Classification In animals Emotional intelligence Mood Regulation Interpersonal Dysregulation Valence
Emotions Acceptance Admiration Affection Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Awe Belongingness Boredom Confidence Confusion Contempt Contentment Courage Curiosity Depression Desire Determination Disappointment Disgust Distrust Doubt Ecstasy Elevation Embarrassment Emotional Detachment Empathy Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Faith Fear Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Interest Jealousy Joy Kindness Limerence Loneliness Love Lust Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity Pleasure Pride Rage Regret Rejection Relief Remorse Resentment Sadness Saudade Schadenfreude Self-pity Shame Shock Shyness Social connection Sorrow Suffering Surprise Suspicion Trust Wonder Worry
v t e