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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond.
On this show, we look at well being as well as physical health.
So today we thought we'd focus on nostalgia,
that bittersweet feeling when you look back on days gone by, sometimes with a tinge of sadness.
In the next half an hour,
we'll be finding out how these feelings of nostalgia can shape our thoughts
and behavior and how in the past,
nostalgia was even viewed as a disease so deadly that it appeared on death certificates.
And we'll be asking if we can use nostalgia in a positive way for our own ends.
By really leaning into it, it turns out that we can feel better,
reduce pain and even inject a bit of romance into life.
All that is coming up,
but first I want you to meet my expert guides in all of this from different universities in the uk.
Welcome, first of all, to Peter Olusaga,
who is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University.
Thanks for having me.
And we're also joined by Daryl O'Connor, who's professor of Psychology at the University of Leeds.
Hi.