Nostalgia and Metacognition

Adam Carroll: Nostalgia is an affectionate, longing attraction to the past. He says if you've been alive that long, your feelings have evolved about nearly every fixed point in your life. It's one of the reasons we like periodically rewatching or rereading something first encountered much earlier in life. You can learn about how you've changed by watching the show and seeing how it hits you now compared to how it hit you back then.