Nostalgia, it turns out, promotes progress, helps people resolve their dissatisfaction, and encourages feelings of hope. In fact, nostalgia is more about envisioning the future than longing for ...

Gathering a group of undergraduate students from the U.S., they asked the students about the frequency of their feelings of nostalgia and the number of their friends, as well as their motivation to ...

In fact, Routledge’s recent research into the function of nostalgia has revealed that, contrary to Hofer’s observations, it’s a largely positive phenomenon. Nostalgic feelings often increase in ...

A Rutgers-led study finds that employees cope with feelings of nostalgia in both productive and unproductive ways. Managers ...

“There is evidence showing that young adults report nostalgic feelings slightly more frequently than middle-aged adults, while older adults report dramatically higher levels of nostalgia ...

Nostalgia, by heightening feelings of connectedness, reduces people’s desire for money, says a team led by Jannine D. Lasaleta of the Grenoble School of Management in France. In one experiment ...