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Professor Rhiannon Turner’s work on nostalgia has been featured in Metro.co.uk.  Professor Turner suggests that "Nostalgia is a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past".  Although nostalgia can be bittersweet, she said it is a positive emotion because it allows us to think of past events which have some kind of meaning to us and bring us pleasure.  This, in turn, leads to benefits for those around us, she argues, having conducted studies which revealed that people have more positive attitudes to others when feeling nostalgic.
To read more, please click: http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/28/nostalgia-aint-what-it-used-to-be-it-used-to-be-a-disease-3939205/

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