Nostalgia, a constant in U.S. history, has people longing for the era of 'stagflation,' the Vietnam War and Watergate.

Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self ...

Nostalgia is a complex emotion that is innately human and felt frequently by people of all ages and across cultures. On average, humans feel nostalgic a few times a week. The last days of December ...

Nostalgia—a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past—is often associated with happy or positive memories. Modern times come with all sorts of modern problems, which is ...

Just a hundred years ago or so, it was not merely an emotion – but a sickness. Nostalgia was first coined as a term – and used as a diagnosis – by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer in 1688.

It was not clear from the data whether nostalgia caused changes in behavior and motivation, however. Perhaps having big social networks and lots of old friends simply makes people more nostalgic ...

While watching the Barbie movie or a reboot of Zoey 101 both invoke that ethereal feeling of nostalgia, Dayton says that smell — one of the primary ways in which we engage with food — is ...

Before it reminded us of the glory days, nostalgia was a medical condition involving severe homesickness. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed ...