
Does Nostalgia Have a Psychological Purpose? with Krystine Batcho, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Are You Having Nastalgia?
It might depend the person's a mental state, how they're doing in life. One level is when someone is sitting in private just reminiscing. There it is very important to think about their current mood state. We have mood dependent memory effects. When you're sad, you're more likely to think of sad memories. But on the other level, we have a social element and nastalsia is a social experience.
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