なぜ大人は、子どもの頃に戻りたくなるのか【歴史×心理学】

Five o'clock in the evening. A chime rings somewhere. Just that alone makes my chest tighten a little. The smell of earth after the rain. The taste of the crepe I was bought on the way home. —For no reason, my heart is carried to a distant place. I want to go back. To those days. To the time when I was a child with no worries. But was I truly happy back then? I had homework. I was scolded. I fought with friends. And yet, we always want to go back. Why do adults long so much to return to their childhood? Psychology and history offer surprisingly profound answers to this feeling of "wanting to go back." And there, we find a major misconception that many of us believe without question. ▼Table of Contents [※Times are provisional and may be replaced with actual times] 0:00 Prologue — The 5 PM Chime 1:12 Chapter 1: It Wasn't Memories That Were Beautiful 3:00 Chapter 2: When Time Was Area 5:15 Chapter 3: A Place Where Names Are Not Called 7:42 Chapter 4: "Childhood" Was Invented 10:24 Chapter 5: It Was an Alarm 13:31 Final Chapter — The Place to Return To Is in Today ▼About This Channel The Layers of History [History x Psychology] History from all times and places, and the latest psychology. By tracing both, we shed light on the depths of the human mind. A documentary for adults who live each day seriously. Tracing the layers of the human mind. ▼Related Videos ・The Psychological Layer of Gaze—Why Do Adults Worry So Much About What Others Think?    • なぜ、人はこんなにも他人の目を恐れるのか【心理学×歴史】   ・The Psychological Layer of Aging—Why Does a Year Pass So Quickly for Adults?    • なぜ大人になると、友達は減っていくのか【心理学×歴史】   ▼References/Sources 【Psychology/Social Psychology (Nostalgia Research)】 ・Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Jamie Arndt & Clay Routledge "Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006) —The foundation of modern nostalgia research. It showed that "wanting to go back" is not a backward escape, but a functional emotion that arises when faced with "present deficiencies" such as loneliness, emptiness, and a sense of disconnection, and serves to fill those voids. The core of Chapter 5. Xinyue Zhou, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides et al., "Heartwarming Memories: Nostalgia Maintains Physiological Comfort" (Emotion, 2012) —Five experiments demonstrating that the colder a person is in a room, the stronger their "nostalgia" feels, and that this nostalgia raises their perceived temperature—even mitigating physical cold. Evidence that the desire to "return" is a homeostatic response, a reaction of the mind to the lack of the current situation. Chapter 5. History (The Invention of Childhood) ​​Philippe Ariès, The Birth of Childhood: Childhood and Family Life in the Ancien Régime (Misuzu Shobo, 1980 / Original 1960) —A classic arguing that the concept of "childhood" itself did not exist in the Middle Ages, and children were treated as "little adults." The "special childhood" we long for is a modern invention. The basis for Chapter 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (1762) —A book that depicts children not as immature forms of adults, but as complete beings in themselves, creating the origin of the modern sentiment of "innocent childhood that needs to be protected." Chapter 4. Supplement (Modernity/Time) E.P. Thompson, Time, Work Discipline, Industrial Capitalism (Past & Present, 1967) —A study that discusses the process by which factory whistles and clocks transformed human time into something "divided by purpose." Before and after "time is money" became common sense. Background to Chapters 2 and 4. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼For those who want to appreciate this video more deeply The Psychology of Nostalgia—Memories and Emotions (Supervised by the Japanese Psychological Association / Edited by Takashi Kusumi, Seishin Shobo) For a deeper look at Chapter 5. "Why is the past romanticized?" "Why does the elementary school I visited seem smaller?" — A book that treats nostalgia as a science. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/441431112... • The Birth of Childhood (Philippe Ariès / Misuzu Shobo) *Based on Chapter 4 of the main text. Tracing the history of when and how your nostalgic "childhood" came into being. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/462201832... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼For those who want to enjoy books with their ears (30-day free trial): Audible https://www.amazon.co.jp/b/ref=adbl_J... ▼Unlimited access to over 2 million ebooks: Kindle Unlimited https://www.amazon.co.jp/kindle-dbs/h... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *The above links contain affiliate links. Purchases and registrations made through these links will support the channel's operation. Thank you for your continued support. #Psychology #History #Documentary #Nostalgia #Childhood #Time #Sedicides #Aries #SocialPsychology