Editing Nostalgia (section)

===Increasing social connectedness===
Nostalgia sometimes involves memories of people one was close to, such as family members, romantic lovers, or friends, and thus it can increase one's sense of social support and connections. Nostalgia is also triggered specifically by feelings of loneliness, but counteracts such feelings with reflections of close relationships. According to Zhou et al. (2008), lonely people often have lesser perceptions of [[social support]]. [[Loneliness]], however, leads to nostalgia, which actually increases perceptions of social support. Thus, Zhou and colleagues (2008) concluded that nostalgia serves a restorative function for individuals regarding their social connectedness.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Zhou | first1 = X. | last2 = Sedikides | first2 = C. | last3 = Wildschut | first3 = T. | last4 = Gao | first4 = D. | year = 2008 | title = Counteracting loneliness: On the restorative function of nostalgia |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/63844/1/Zhou_et_al__2008.pdf| journal = Psychological Science | volume = 19 | issue = 10| pages = 1023–1029 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02194.x | pmid = 19000213 | s2cid = 45398320 }}</ref>[[File:Tweed run 20130413 180.jpg|thumb|[[Tweed run]], 2013]]