| Speaking of Psychology: Does | nostalgia | |
| Speaking of Psychology: Does | nostalgia | have a psychological purpose |
| Episode 93 – Does | Nostalgia | Have a Psychological Purpose |
| What psychological purpose does | nostalgia | serve? Is it good or |
| She’s an expert on nostalgia and developed the | Nostalgia | Inventory |
| that assesses proneness to personal | nostalgia | |
| research on the psychology of | nostalgia | |
| with her introduction of the | Nostalgia | Inventory, a survey that |
| assesses proneness to personal nostalgia. The | Nostalgia | Inventory has |
| Nostalgia | , that longing feeling for the |
| well. What psychological purpose does | nostalgia | serve? Is it good or |
| She's an expert on | nostalgia | and develops the |
| nostalgia | inventory, a survey that assesses |
| nostalgia | . Welcome, Dr. Batcho |
| much. I love talking about | nostalgia | |
| psychologist and a researcher of | nostalgia | , how do you describe |
| nostalgia | |
| researching | nostalgia | , but they might be using |
| nostalgia | . The word was coined or |
| nostalgia | or that is what I |
| mean when I talk about | nostalgia | and it's a |
| talk about the role of | nostalgia | in the human psyche. Why |
| argues that | nostalgia | serves a number of functions |
| them all together is that | nostalgia | is an emotional experience that |
| three years old, for example. | Nostalgia | by |
| The other way that | nostalgia | serves an essential psychological function |
| a social connectedness phenomenon and | nostalgia | is |
| s two different kinds of | nostalgia | |
| varieties of | nostalgia | but when I first began |
| I refer to as historical | nostalgia | . The |
| that someone who experiences historical | nostalgia | might |
| nostalgia | |
| Personal | nostalgia | means that you are longing |
| of one type of the | nostalgia | and |
| Your research has shown that | nostalgia | can be a stabilizing force |
| In a way, | Nostalgia | is like a measurement. It |
| a | nostalgia | researcher |
| personal | nostalgia | because they're remembering how |
| it's not personal nostalgia, it's historical. Historical | nostalgia | |
| of the reasons I find | nostalgia | so |
| have the least amount of | nostalgia | . It turns out that |
| more likely then to experience | nostalgia | in a negative way. On |
| purpose and meaning and the | nostalgia | , one of its healthiest |
| Data suggests that | nostalgia | facilitates our understanding of meaning |
| some element of infectiousness to | nostalgia | ? I mean, we |
| Luna: Can this | nostalgia | be a destructive force that |
| of the research suggests that | nostalgia | is aligned with or |
| to a healthy kind of | nostalgia | is the one where |
| positive pro-social aspects of | nostalgia | can reconnect us now. Not |
| might refer to as social | nostalgia | and looking at groups and |
| Luna: Can | nostalgia | hold us back by keeping |
| covered it looks like this. | Nostalgia | is bittersweet. Why did it |
| they're using | nostalgia | then or their memories as |
| people my research shows, because | nostalgia | is a social |
| a person's feelings of | nostalgia | ? Is it |
| nostalgia | where it peaks not in |
| reason for that increase in | nostalgia | during young adulthood is because |
| periods including developmental ones trigger | nostalgia | |
| Luna: Do you think | nostalgia | has always been a part |
| nostalgia | inventory, I was really impressed |
| nostalgia | before it ever had the |
| name | nostalgia | and those references go |
| times, can you explain your | nostalgia | inventory and how you |
| Batcho: Yes, because I define | nostalgia | as a longing for or |
| I argue that | nostalgia | is an umbrella that covers |
| nostalgia | about the past |
| researchers now looking at relationship | nostalgia | |
| different areas of | nostalgia | . I want to know, is |
| society to collectively use | nostalgia | to better itself? How can |
| we have a lot of | nostalgia | . If you use a search |
| the term | nostalgia | , it is incredible. You can |
| of the healthiest forms of | nostalgia | throughout human history has |
| differences can be divisive, | nostalgia | could be in a way |
| cure because | nostalgia | does the opposite. Instead of |
| lot of great things that | nostalgia | can do for us if |
| Episode 93: Does | Nostalgia | Have a Psychological Purpose |