{"id":32671,"date":"2017-05-28T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32671"},"modified":"2017-05-18T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:47:46","slug":"qotd-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/qotd-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they\u2019re sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer.<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia does have its painful side \u2014 it\u2019s a bittersweet emotion \u2014 but the net effect is to make life seem more meaningful and death less frightening. When people speak wistfully of the past, they typically become more optimistic and inspired about the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNostalgia makes us a bit more human,\u201d Dr. Sedikides says. He considers the first great nostalgist to be Odysseus, an itinerant who used memories of his family and home to get through hard times, but Dr. Sedikides emphasizes that nostalgia is not the same as homesickness. It\u2019s not just for those away from home, and it\u2019s not a sickness, despite its historical reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia was originally described as a \u201cneurological disease of essentially demonic cause\u201d by Johannes Hoffer, the Swiss doctor who coined the term in 1688. Military physicians speculated that its prevalence among Swiss mercenaries abroad was due to earlier damage to the soldiers\u2019 ear drums and brain cells by the unremitting clanging of cowbells in the Alps. <\/p>\n<p>John Tierney, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/09\/science\/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-quite-a-bit-research-shows.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows&#8221;, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, 2013-07-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia has been shown to counteract loneliness, boredom and anxiety. It makes people more generous to strangers and more tolerant of outsiders. Couples feel closer and look happier when they\u2019re sharing nostalgic memories. On cold days, or in cold rooms, people use nostalgia to literally feel warmer. Nostalgia does have its painful side \u2014 it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[575,906,45,139],"class_list":["post-32671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-happiness","tag-mentalhealth","tag-nostalgia","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32672,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32671\/revisions\/32672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}