Editing Nostalgia (section)

==Trigger factors==

===Cultural===

====Books====
A person can deliberately trigger feelings of nostalgia by listening to familiar music, looking at old photos, or visiting comforting environments of the past.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.neurologytimes.com/blog/brain-and-nostalgia|title=The Brain and Nostalgia|access-date=2019-07-10|archive-date=2020-05-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515190426/https://www.neurologytimes.com/blog/brain-and-nostalgia|url-status=dead}}</ref> With this knowledge widely available, many books have been published specifically to evoke the feeling of nostalgia. 

====Music====
Hearing an old song can bring back memories for a person. A song heard once at a specific moment and then not heard again until a far later date will give the listener a sense of nostalgia for the date remembered and events that occurred then. However, if it is heard throughout life, it may lose its association with any specific period or experience.<ref name="psychologytoday.com"/>

====Movies====
Old movies can trigger nostalgia. This is particularly true for generations who grew up as children during specific film eras such as the [[Modern animation in the United States|animation renaissance of the 1990s]]. Rewatching classic movies can be therapeutic in nature, healing emotional wounds using happy childhood memories.<ref name="nelakonda"/>

====TV shows====
Old television shows can trigger nostalgia. People gravitate towards shows they watched as children, as the memories from one's youth are often the most significant of their lives.<ref name="nelakonda"/>

====Video games====
Old video games can trigger nostalgia. [[Retrogaming]] has become a recreational activity among older generations who played them as children.<ref name="mccarthy"/>

===Environmental===

====Geography====
Specific locations can trigger nostalgia. Such places are often associated with an individual's past, reminding them of their past childhood, relationships, or achievements. They may include the homes where they grew up with their families, the schools they attended with friends, or the venues they went to for dating and marriage.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Neal |first=Gabrielle J. |date=Mar 5, 2021 |title=Nostalgic Places from Childhood |url=https://afhspatriotpress.wixsite.com/read/post/nostalgic-places-from-childhood |work=The Patriot Press |location=American Fork, Utah}}</ref>

====Nature====
Nature-based factors such as weather and temperature can trigger nostalgia. Scientific studies have shown that cold weather makes people more nostalgic, while nostalgia causes people to feel warmer.<ref name="weather"/> In some societies, elements of [[nature]] often trigger a nostalgia for past times when nature played a larger role in culture.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-17383-2_21 |chapter=The Role of Nature in the Nostalgic Experience of the Japanese |author=William J. Havlena & Susan L. Holak |title=Proceedings of the 1998 Multicultural Marketing Conference |date=2015 |publisher=Springer|series=Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science |pages=128–134 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-17383-2_21 |isbn=978-3-319-17382-5 }}</ref>
Environmental philosopher [[Glenn Albrecht]] coined the term 'solastalgia' in his 2003 book ''Solastalgia: a new concept in human health and identity''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Solastalgia: a new concept in human health and identity|last=Albrecht, G.|date=2005|publisher=PAN Partners|oclc=993784860}}</ref> The word is formed from the Latin sōlācium (comfort) and the Greek root ἄλγος (pain, suffering) to describe a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental destruction. Nostalgia differs from solastalgia because nostalgia is typically generated by spatial separation from important places or persons (one's home, family, friends, or loved ones) with which it is often possible, in principle, to reconnect. With solastalgia, in contrast, the grief is typically caused by environmental destruction, so the separation between subject and object is ontological rather than spatial: it is permanent and unbridgeable, and can be experienced while continuing to occupy the same irreversibly degraded place.