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Does Nostalgia Have a Psychological Purpose? with Krystine Batcho, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Can Istalgia Be a Destructive Force That Can Incubate Anger, Isolation or Hatred?

Most research suggests that nastalgia is alined with or correlated with very soft, pro social emotions such as compassion and ampathy. Can it be isolating? That's a very interesting question because you could argue that if you find yourself the victim of or a survivor of very unique circumstances, and now youre nostalgic fora time before that other people might not be able to relate to you. And in that sense, you can broaden it out a little more. It seems like it could have that potential.

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