Pranam
I used to wonder why always the memories are so sweet than the life at
present? It is for every generation and every brain to cognise the
thoughts.
Nostalgia is thought to play a critical role in physiological
resilience. The nostalgia-related activity was shown in both memory and
reward-systems, including the hippocampus, substantia nigra/ventral
tegmental area (SN/VTA) and ventral striatum (VS). What this means is that
there is a kind of cooperative activity between these systems that plays a
very specific role in how we experience nostalgia. Not only can nostalgia
amplify perceptions of social support, which then counteracts feelings of
loneliness, but it's also been linked to being more resilient
<https://atlasofscience.org/the-nostalgic-brain/>.
The subjects of the experiments varied in age and background, some being
children and others being middle-aged factory workers. The factory workers
were also assessed on their resilience (their ability to recover from a
traumatic event) and people who reported a larger sense of nostalgia were
also more resilient in life.
A 2015 study publishing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103115000116?np=y>
also
linked nostalgia to openness to experience new things and creativity. In
two separate experiments, students were split into two different groups.
One group was told to think of a past event that made them feel nostalgic
and to really immerse themselves in that memory. Then they were told to
write about it for five minutes. The other group was told to think about an
"ordinary experience" that was not linked to any feelings of nostalgia and
to write about it for five minutes as well.The results
<https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/nostalgia-fosters-creativity-openness> showed
those who were put into a nostalgic mindset before writing tended to be
much more creative than those who wrote about an "ordinary experience."―One
can remember without being nostalgic, but one cannot be nostalgic without
remembering‖
Categories of Nostalgia; Empirical investigations of nostalgic
experiences have been scarce due to problematic operational definitions and
methods of measurements. In the light of nostalgia being a difficult
phenomenon to define, several authors have suggested categorizing it into
different sub-genres, namely, personal nostalgia and historical nostalgia),
also known as true and social nostalgia . Three additional types of
nostalgia were proposed as real, simulated, and collective nostalgia. Real
nostalgia refers to the sentimental yearning, for the self- lived past,
paralleling the view of personal nostalgia. It is experienced only if the
person in question has lived through the original event himself/herself.
When the real thing is not available it may be possible to elicit *simulated
nostalgia.* It refers to the indirectly experienced past. E.g. when
listening to elderly people's anecdotes of the good old times‘ one might
experience a nostalgic feeling even though you were not there yourself ,
which shares a definitional ground with historical nostalgia .Collective
nostalgia represents a sentimental yearning felt by entire cultures,
Further categories have also been suggested: we could see religious
traditions as a form of institutionalized nostalgia‘- ―Emotionally-laden
rituals discharge nostalgic energies through the physical activity of the
ritual, while forging linkages with the past‖ The result showed than
women were marginally more prone to nostalgia than men, however no
correlation with age.KR IRS 24221
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 07:46, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>
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