With Spotify Wrapped unlocking a decade of listeners’ streaming data, culture writer Ian Hsieh meets the psychology professor who believes there’s more to nostalgia than a warm, fuzzy feeling
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Nostalgia. It’s the enemy of progress. After all, how can you move forward with your life if all you’re doing is looking back, living in the past and uttering melancholic sighs of: “Ah, those were the days” as your eyes slowly glaze over? What about these days you’re living right now, and the days after those, and the days after those?