In a nutshell Nostalgia helps maintain close friendships over time. People who frequently experience nostalgia are more likely to keep their strong social connections intact, even as life changes. The study found that nostalgic people had stronger social ties regardless of personality traits like extroversion or agreeableness.

A study found people who are prone to nostalgia have more close friends and are better at keeping them than those who are less sentimental.

Those who said they were nostalgic put more importance on maintaining their friendships, and had the most very close friendships and relationships, results show. The second experi