We talked to Abeyta, who studies nostalgia, to get to the bottom of why the emotion is so desirable and if it's actually good for us. Here's what he says. When Swiss physician Johannes Hofer ...

Hofer proposed that nostalgia was “sympathetic of an afflicted imagination,” caused by “continuous vibration of animal spirits” through certain parts of the brain, and that it “admits no remedy other ...

When Swiss physician Johannes Hofer first put a name to the feeling in the 1600s, it was negative in nature—until he realized that those who resorted to nostalgia did so because of their ...

As Victorian Opera’s fine production demonstrates, the heart of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies is the paradox of nostalgia.