The Unexpected Benefits (and Risks) of Nostalgia
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Psychologists consider nostalgia a complex emotion and it may have both benefits and risks.
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Nostalgia really isn't what it used to be.
60 Second Success make nostalgia great again
I laughed... AND snorted...
Hi 60 Seconds! I see you everywhere.
60 Second Success good one, now its your turn to talk about it
:D
I'm so old I miss the times when I used to miss stuff.
Dude same
MusiCanines - The Musical Dogs Xs
I've thought about that, though I can't agree yet
I miss the days that I had nostalgia. Those were truly the best of days I used to remember.
Well your comment is nostalgic now
"Nostalgia can screw with your memory a bit" *cue Sonic the Hedgehog fans*
Lemanic89 lol
Yea no kidding though
I can confirm as a sonic fan lol
Sonic Adventure 3 who?
Truly is proof that things don't have to be good to be enjoyed XD
When I grew up, we didn't have nostalgia like you kids do today, and we liked it that way! Ohhh.. the good ol' days.
😂😂😂
Nostalgia is like a ruler for individual measurement.
When I feel lonely, I long back to the days friendships were in abundance. It also reminds me of past decisions I evaluate on how it worked out for me.
Sometimes it gets the better of me, most times it reminds me of how relative everything is.
Although I was a misanthropic suicidal years ago, the deaths of some of my best friends make me feel like I challenging myself to keep on going.
Sure, I miss the time spend with them, the memories, the nostalgia, they empower me whenever I'm down.
02:40 Coffee is neutral? Not for a programmer :)
Gotta concentrate somehow. And hey, it's tasty too!
Sh1pp0K1tsune Coffee may be neutral, but covfefe is not.
Meh, not really _that_ neutral; I give it a pH 5-6
Tea is my life blood as a programmer. Iced, Green, Oolong, and all sorts of fruity blends. Right now my horrible life decision is shotgunning Arizona Arnold Palmer's.
Siphonife I like homemade chai with milk
I know too many people who waste their days away now trying to relive the past they think was somehow better, trying to have that same "good" experience, its really sad.
On the other hand, The Matrix was awesome when it came out, now its terrible.
Well, I am 26 years old, and I hate nostalgia, because it drives me to the path of depression. And I always think that the past was better than the present, so...
Same that's why I don't remenisce at all
I just hate it when pepole say they miss the "old days" when we listened to others and everything was great.
Every generation in every country did'nt respect the other side, all of them were humans' it's just that Nostalgia conceals that.
I guess year or two years ago when u type that u had something ur now missing, so and if ur reading this now, u should take a look at things u have rn. Maybe year past and they will give u nostalgia, make u feel u could do something better/enjoy it more/stick up to the society or community what might be lost forever, or reunited in future but wont feel like it was at first?
I am also thinking about childhood life. I really miss my past life and places.
same bruh it makes me sad that it’s gone
Anyone else got the feeling that Hank is a bit salty because he didn't get a NES classic?
He's still upset about always getting Large size shirts lol
Hank Schrader?
2:23 couldn't it be that the reason the people who thought about nostalgic things gave less death-related answers than the others is simply because they had thought about something other than death which it got off of their minds? and the reason people gave death-related answers was because it was still fresh in their minds, unlike the people who were thinking about something nostalgic after thinking about death? or am i missing something?
That's the tough bit about psychology studies. Kind of hard to nail down conclusive results because it's hard to get a human mind into "laboratory conditions".
Iffat Aniqa good point although isn't it the same thing in this case? they found nostalgia allegedly helps you get your mind off bad stuff, if that's the result and it lines up with an evolutionary advantage, does it matter why?
And easy way to control this would be to have subjects listen to old episodes of dear hank and john, that way they can think about death and get nostalgic at the same time
Interesting video...I love nostalgia, and look forward to the day of my passing. More research is needed.
What if you have deep, dark, clinical depression, and nostalgia helps you remember the ways life doesn't always suck?
I live in a constant state of nostalgia. Part of the reason why I'm a historian! Pretty cool to see that it has a functional purpose.
4:09 i am assuming that part is for the patreons? :D
Nostalgia makes me sad
Over the past year, I've updated my most favorite movies list like 4 times, and I haven't been in High School in years.
I get nostalgic SO MUCH, sometimes even for things that haven't ended yet. That tertiary Si really kicks me in the rear sometimes
Lumberjacks are prone to nostalgia, it's literally their job to "pine away."
Master Therion 😆😆😆
Booooooooooooooo
Pfft
Thank you.
Painful pun on point!
I get nostalgia every now and then. But I also get yestalgias.
Yestalgias are when I'm thinking of the bad old days.
I think back to times I had to put up with things that I no longer have to today. YES!
Remember dial up internet when you couldn't talk on a landline and surf the web at the same time? YES! Don't have to do that anymore.
Remember when we had landlines and if you wanted to make a phone when you were out, you had find a pay phone? YES! Landlines are now a relic and YES! I can call anyone anywhere with my smartphone.
I could on and on with examples but YEStalgias make me feel really grateful sometimes.
Anyone else only feel the sad part of nostalgia? Am I the only one? Is this a thing that some people have or am I alone?
RibShark I'm the same way. 😕
Nostalgia makes me realize that those things are now dead and no one [insert any action word here] them anymore.
It kind of pervades my memories and I just get depressed for a while
You may be thinking about the good and not realizing. If you’ve ever actively searched for nostalgic stuff, you probably feel the good
RibShark I only feel the positive aspects of nostalgia unless it's about something that's truly gone. Like I can go back to video games or music I loved as a child, rekindle relationships with people close to me whom I remember fondly, and still feel a similar sense of joy rediscovering as I did experiencing for the first time. But when I think back to good experiences with loved ones I lost or to a time when I didn't have to worry about responsibility or the world (things that can now only be memory) that's when it feels bittersweet.
I guess what I'm saying is that nostalgia doesn't have to be bittersweet when you can do something to make those feelings a reality again.
While it is fine to feel nostalgic about things, I believe the it can also cloud the judgment of reboots of our favorite shows.
It kind of seems like these studies are a bit shaky lol. It doesn't sound like nostalgia was necessarily the thing that caused people to forget about death. . .just thinking about anything else before taking the word completion survey made them less likely to pick death-related words than the people who were literally just thinking about death. Also the people had to come up with something to think about for themselves so varying perspectives on what the nostalgia really means could vary the person-to-person results.
Thinking about weasel words cannot occur simultaneously to thinking about death.
I just reminisced about this video.
Fascinating! I am an extremely nostalgic person (sometimes to my detriment), so learning about how nostalgia works helps me navigate my life a little more critically and easily. What's funny is I was actually really obsessed with The Legend of Zelda in middle school, so all the Zelda talk (plus the fact that I've been replaying Ocarina of Time recently) made me feel really, REALLY nostalgic.
What about...
Starting up Windows 95 and hearing the music of a Floppy Disk Drive reading that floppy you forgot to take out of it accompanied with your modem buzzing as it connects to the World Wide Web and The Microsoft Sound playing softly since your system booted up.
Yeah, I've yet to draw any emotion from nostalgia besides disappointment. The more often I go back to the things I feel nostalgic for - old movies, old video games, places and people - the more I realise that really not very many things age well. In fact, the moment I go back to I remember fondly, I'm immediately reminded of all the niggling little things that pissed me off at the time, but that I brushed aside.
While the "feeling" of nostalgia might help people's moods, it's an illusion which is almost never true. At best it leads to wasted money and missed opportunities, at worst it causes people to live in an imaginary world of things which never were.
While I'm aware it can be what you described, that hasn't been my experience. I'm mostly able to separate out what was actually good and what was bad without having to be reminded most of the time.
Sounds like you're particularly prone to having your memory bent by nostalgia.
Depends on what time of my life I think about. Either way, it makes me happy.
If the memory sucks, I'm happy that these times are over and I could learn from it. If it's a nice memory, I'm happy that I got to experience it.
@AZNwannabe06:
I used to be quite prone to having my memory bent by nostalgia, yes. As a consequence, I've gone through a lot of disappointment going back to old "favourite" things and realising that I must have had REALLY low standards as a child. More than that, though, I'm constantly having to deal with people blinded by nostalgia online. Everything new always sucks, is missing the point, lacks any heart and doesn't have that je ne sais quoi. While pouring cold water on people's childhood and all the ways it hasn't aged well isn't fun, it seems almost necessary at this point if we are to have any kind of innovation in any facet of media whatsoever.
Arguing against rose-tinted nostalgia glasses can be exceptionally frustrating, because it comes down to trying to reason with often irrational feelings. People will praise old games to high heaven, reject any perceived flaws in them and hold onto their mind's eye vision of what never was, while at the same time lambasting modern games for fairly minor infractions in comparison, just as a random example of what I've had to deal with. That has real, tangible consequences on the present, yet it's based on a severely warped version of the past - something I know all too well having done the same thing myself.
I would like to see a video on prevalent feelings of nostalgia that seem to hang around with their best friend ... grief.
3:31 my dad brought home this TV series that he loved as a kid, called "Evil Roy Slade" saying that it was great... And then we started watching it, it was terrible, and he got really embarrassed XD
right when i recieved this video, i was listening to 2006 songs... : )
Andromeda Gaming What does listening to recent music have to do with nostalgia? The 80's had the best music, but thanks for making me feel like a fossil with your comment. lol
How could you distinguish any of them if you were listening to 2,006 songs at once?
2006 music always reminds me of highschool
Primalxbeast I agree! The eighties had excellent song writing. It’s not just nostalgia
Thanks to your insight, I can say that I still care more deeply for some shows I watched when in my childhood, because my much beloved Grandmother also enjoyed those shows - even though she watched them when much older. In other words, that old show reminded me of a favourite loved one, during a time I felt moderately safe from the big, adult world.
How cruelly sweet the echoes that start ~ when memory plays an old tune on the heart !!! " Ol' Dobbin ,' Eliza Cook ~~~
Damn I'm 24 years old now and I still MISS my childhood growing up in the 2000's.
For me, nostalgia really hit in ‘07-‘08. I had a fall out with my best friend back in ‘03 and I was pretty sad over the situation. Then he came back into my life maybe back in ‘06-‘07, but he really came back to date my older sister and our dynamics just weren’t the same. Also, him and my other best friend (who was also one of his best friends) weren’t really talking either. I just missed that dynamic we all used to have back in ‘99-‘03. Combine that with UA-cam and the internet, I became super nostalgic for time period. It made it hard to move in my life because I just yearned for that time period of being young and having fun with my best friends- discovering common hobbies together like Pokémon, anime, video games, and just things like that.
Fast forward to today- we’re all in our 30s now; we’re all married (my best friend did marry my sister so he’s now family); we’re all talking again. It’s definitely nice, and I hope my son can experience the joy that I had felt when I was 12-15 years old.
Every mention of the term "NES Classic" just sounds like "scalper gold" to me.
You've been able to emulate games of later eras for eons now. Costly, unavailable box-o-limitations seems pointless.
Aerolite08 amen. for basically the same price I got a Retro Pi set up with easily 3000 games on it, and not all limited to one console.
That's piracy though, of course stealing is cheaper. These classics consoles are just a legal way to play these old games again.
I like to feel nostalgia.
Thanx Scishow psych for telling the benefits of nostalgia 😊😊😊
Idk why but I have huge nostalgia during Christmas time
But for many Elders this brings back our happy young times and to compare this with today is so sad. We get depressed.
So interesting! It makes perfect sense about this being a complex emotion. It's nice to reflect but surly it can't be good to delve too deep into these nostalgic emotions.
I remember the day this video was published, those were the golden days of nostalgia-related educational content...
The beauty and the beast Broadway musical makes me nostalgic, the show makes me think of the show I did a few summers.
I was thinking about Zelda this whole time, I guess I'm not alone in that.
it's so complex i don't feel with anything but music.
Nostalgia is so powerful and I wish that more companies WOULD channel it... an example of this is Trader Joe’s!! I love their old time packages! I can now experience nostalgia in a more current way! I will buy a product for the art on the packages there.
I am unsure that I understand what nostalgia is supposed to feel like. For me I tend to either think objectively about the past, have mostly positive feelings (mostly when I am already in a positive mood), or have mostly negative feelings (mostly when my mood is already negative--yay positive feedback loops--or is taking a sudden, sharp turn in that direction). Maybe I'm simply broken... wouldn't be the only way I am.
49 years old here! Having the time of my life as ChatGPT allows me to interact with computers the way I dreamed it would be... when I was 11, in 1985.
My nostalgia started when I was 26 - coincidently with my quarter life crisis. It was from this point that I started thinking about for example when a videogame came out, and how the release of this videogame was only a certain number of years after another event.
Thanks for helping me for my research paper👍🏼
I think just like pretty much everything in life, nostalgia is good in moderation. I love music related nostalgia, when you hear a particular song and for that few minutes, it's as if the clock just rolled back and you're remembering a certain time in your life so clearly. That always makes me smile. However, I feel there's another type of nostalgia that I always call "rear view mirror" nostalgia where people just constantly look back and that can be quite unhealthy. When you do that you start thinking what's gone by is better than what's in front of you. I guess it's about finding balance. Enjoy your memories, take moments to remember but keep it moving. If we are always ruminating about the past we miss out on the present.
Yay Hank is over here!
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia...
Sometimes when I imagine a future situation I might or will never be in I become nostalgic about the present while still imagining it from the point of view of me from the possible or impossible future.
this explains my inability to experience nostalgia and huge fear of death.
Coffee is a necessity, coffins are really cool and coffers are always nice (unless they're empty)
okay i'm assuming that in this study, they had a condition in which participants were meant to feel a different emotion? just because the nostalgia distracted them from death, that doesn't mean that literally anything else wouldn't as well?
Talking about Nostaglia, being born and raised in the 80's i often find myself listening to synth music from the 80s (or like the 80s for example Kavinsky, or Stranger things), but i don't remember ever listening to that kind of music in the 80's or having heard it on TV.
Nostalgia isn't cheering, it's hurts, and it hurts so badly. Loving something so much and knowing you won't be able to experience it the same way or at all is demoralising and has left me on the verge of tears. And I think the participants didn't think about death so much because nostalgia is not about it. It is a profund sense of emptiness, and people are willing to spend more money on nostalgic items because it feels like a way to fill that void. And maybe it's different for me, but I don't see the good part of nostalgia and I try to avoid it as much as possible, because, again, it hits you like a truck.
When Hank talks about thinking about death, all I can think about is Dear Hank and John
Nostalgia is what drives the "retro" industry. Games, furniture, movies, tv, esp. reruns, all because of that feeling that the past was better. But sometimes when you relive an experience it's not the same as it was, usually because you're not the same as you were. Also nostalgia is a weird name for it. It sounds more like an old name for a disease.
Oooh! Studying nostalgia would be awesome!!! I'd love to be able to say that I filled in some of the blanks that he mentioned in the video
All of that makes sense.
Imagine having 100 years to do meaningful things with your life. It makes sense that the most meaningful activities will have been done well before your death, so a significant portion of your life should consist of looking back to better times. This means that it is wis e to look back to happier times with a positive attitude, and with feelings of success, rather than feeling sad that life isn't getting any better.
Well, that is why we also have the term rose tinted glasses about nostalgia. A warning that while we might remember the past as being awesome, there were often a lot of flaws with what we liked.
Why I often say that best movies, TV shows and games are generally made today. Sure there a lot of crap out there today. But that is true for the past too. And it does not mean we can not learn a thing or two from the past. But I rather not live in it.
Wait, what?? Not everyone's aware of this factor of reality? It's a mental health thing. Man, this is pretty insightful and should help understand more by identifying what's nostalgia all about.
2:15 the experiment where they had to write about their death, did the control group also have to think of something that was not nostalgia?(i could not find it in the sources.. i might have completelly missed it though) because if they weren't I would argue that asking them to feel about things that make them feel in any other way, still would have had the same effect... but that implies that it doesnt say anything about the feeling of nostalgia itself. Is more about how your most recent feeling has more effects on your behavior
Thats the past u cant go back but to smile
I would like to see the followup with older people. That would be a LOT more interesting.
It all just hurts to me
So, next time you hear someone say 'back in my day...' have mercy.
Loved all the gaming references. Good video. Interesting.
I find the old Angry Birds & the old Minecraft very nostalgic
Nostalgia is the reason why Riley's core memories turned blue in inside out! 🤓 hi Pixar nerd here
I honestly don't feel nostalgia. I only think about the past when I need information from there to make a decision in the present/plan the future. And then I only have it as knowledge of what I did, I can remember how I felt but I don't miss it. I don't think I was happier in the past, on average, than I am now, so I don't have a sense of wanting to go back to it.
*"Wish I could turn back time, to the.. good old days....."*
Doesn’t it happen as a result of memory of how happy you were when thinking of when you did something you liked a lot in your childhood. Things are generally better when you’re a kid so you get attached to the past. And then you miss it because you’ll never see whatever you’re feeling nostalgic about in the same happy way you did as a kid.
perhaps this is why superhero movies are so popular
I'm nostalgic about stuff WAYYYY before I was born
I have a feeling that Hank had a NES classic
Past Tv Shows. The Dinosaurs. The most depressing series finale of any family show, ever.
Nostalgia has been described in psychology as a way of using the past to solve the problems of the present. When you feel a lack of meaning, it's natural to look back to the things you used to find meaningful in the past to fill that void.
Goodness gracious, this is frustrating. None of this is taking into account attachment styles which, through that lense, deeply affects the way we experience nostalgia.
I watch this video after just getting nostalgia four hours ago.
well tbf, the digital world makes me depressed, so I long for the old days where most of the things was trough letter or face to face
NES classic is worth a lot? Hmm, still have mine, and most games.
Miss the good old 90s
Bittersweet? It's straight up gut wrenching
0:52 He said *_MIGHT!!_*
well, once again, psychology has told us more about first-year psychology student.
A few weeks ago I was so bored I watched Yu-Gi-Oh again and man it was shitty. I had no idea but I still kind of love it.
I love sweet nostalgia. It's fun to reminisce about the good times
I miss the late 1980s and 1990s...
I'm going to be that old person who says "Do you remember watching that movie together?" And my husband will say "that happened yesterday."
I never feel nostalgia. I have always looked forward,
"Coff__" made me think of coffee. Of course, I am assembling a new coffee maker at the moment.
Coffin, if thinking about death, cofee if neutral.. what about Coffer if you think about money a lot?
Nostalgia, a good name for a new ice cream flavor
Svetlana Boym put it well in her book, the Future of Nostalgia: People of former Soviet Union don't miss Soviet times, they miss their own youth.
"Coffee" is not a neutral word. "Coffee" is an awesome beverage.
lazyperfectionist1 Disagree. It is neutral
Covfete?
lazyperfectionist1 I don't like coffee though...
Davelyn Yes, that why I said it is neutral, some people like it and peoplw like me dont where as coffin I think most everyone thinks it negative
+Davelyn Sounds to me like you just haven't had the right flavor.
Well if this is accurate I have no nostalgia at all.
I have fond memories of the past, but I guess I don't ever feel that my past memories will be incomparable emotionally to new memories or my current consciousness. I might not be understanding the definition of nostalgia as explained.
What?!
No mention of 'Member Berries?
That explains why a ds is the same price as when it came out
Nostalgia improving my mood? Its the damn reason why my mood is down