Nostalgia

Dimension 929 of 1,100 · Health Lens

Excitement Index

0.0464

Nostalgia measures the extent to which an expression is oriented toward emotionally meaningful reflection on the past, including reminiscence, longing for earlier times, and evaluative looking back on one's life. It encompasses both muted or mixed retrospection and warmly pleasurable immersion in personal memories.

evidence final name · Back Think

Bands

Minimal Nostalgia

Expressions activating this band show little to no emotionally engaged reflection on the past, with attention directed mainly to present attitudes, general beliefs, or unrelated concerns. When the past is mentioned, it is incidental, negated, or not treated as a meaningful source of feeling.

Mild Nostalgia

Expressions activating this band look back on life in a broad evaluative way, often through satisfaction, disappointment, or wishes that life had unfolded differently. The past is salient as a reference point, but the tone is more reflective and appraising than immersive or sentimentally longing.

Moderate Nostalgia

Expressions activating this band dwell on the past as emotionally significant, with regrets, preoccupation, appreciation of life history, or vivid positive memories being brought to mind. The past is experienced as personally meaningful and affectively present.

High Nostalgia

Expressions activating this band portray the past as the primary location of life's enjoyment and emotional value. Reflection centers on a strong sense that what was most rewarding belongs to earlier times.

Intense Nostalgia

Expressions activating this band convey pleasurable, vivid, and often idealized longing for earlier life, especially childhood or youth, with active desire to relive or savor the past. Remembering is experienced as comforting, rewarding, and emotionally absorbing.

Evidence summary

Candidate names

Back Think1.00

Again0.50

Wish0.50

Sentence counts by range

B-6..B03,595,485

B1..B71,382,688

B8..B143,251

B1597

B16..B24322

Dataset representation

01__health_reviews__druglib__benefits_effectiveness61

03__fact_checking__liar__truth_ordinal45

05__whole_disney_dataset__rating155

06__text_reviews__acl_imdb__binary_sentiment165

07__emotion_labels__goemotions_reddit__multilabel137

08__dialogue_emotion__empathetic_dialogues__context308

10__social_media_sentiment__sentiment140__binary172

11__consumer_complaints__response_explanation_vs_relief102

Anchor definitions

Minimal Back Think

Minimal Back Think: Content characterized by vehicle, claim, atm, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect back think at this level.

Emerging Back Think

Emerging Back Think: Content characterized by regret, comparing, sillier, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect back think at this level.

Elevated Back Think

Elevated Back Think: Content characterized by wish, where, miss, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect back think at this level.

Severe Back Think

Severe Back Think: Content characterized by liked, back, where, and related themes. Expressions activating this band reflect back think at this level.