When you imagine your favorite place from your past, what do you picture? Do you see blue sea and blue skies, or do you see the green of grass and trees?
A new study in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology shows that people tend to feel more nostalgia for the seaside than for fields, forests, and mountains, suggesting that the sea is a particularly good place for promoting the positive effects of thinking about the past.
“We wanted to understand what makes certain places more likely to evoke nostalgia,” said Elisabeta Militaru, a study author and a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, who worked on the study while at the University of Cambridge, in a press release. “What are the physical and psychological features that give a place its nostalgic pull?”
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