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1. What is nostalgia? What causes nostalgia? Is nostalgia the same for every person?

2. Wikipedia 3. Multiple authors 4. [] 5. accessed: online on 5/24/14 6. S: the people who contributed to the nostalgia page, all of the credited sources, people who experience nostalgia O: trying to define and identify what nostalgia is and how it affect people A: people who experience or are curious about the feeling of nostalgia P: To define the feeling and experience of nostalgia in words and to clarify what its is and does S: the feeling of nostalgia Tone informative, unbiased, factual, inciteful 7. This page on the Wikipedia website gives an overview of the feeling of nostalgia.It defines what nostalgia is, in amount of information on the topic in a short period of time 8. This source gives a broad overview of what nostalgia is and how it can be interpreted by people who experience it. 9. The authors of the page offer an unbiased approach to the topic of nostalgia 10. "The term //**nostalgia**// describes a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations."

"In common, less clinical usage nostalgia can refer to a general interest in the past, their personalities and events, especially the "good old days" from one's earlier life. Boym argues that nostalgia is more prevalent during times of great upheaval."

"The scientific literature on nostalgia is quite thin, but a few studies have attempted to pin down its essence and causes. Smell and touch are strong evokers of nostalgia due to the processing of these stimuli first passing through the amygdala, the emotional seat of the brain."

"The term was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669–1752) in his Basle dissertation. Hofer introduced //nostalgia// or //mal du pays// "homesickness" for the condition also known as //mal du Suisse// "Swiss illness" or //Schweizerheimweh// "Swiss homesickness," because of its frequent occurrence in Swiss mercenaries who in the plains of lowlands of France or Italy were pining for their native mountain landscapes."