Emotion

Scope

Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Most of the articles published in Emotion will be reports of original research, but other types of articles are acceptable. Articles that present or discuss theoretical formulations of emotion and related affective phenomena that evaluate competing theoretical perspectives, or that offer innovative commentary or analysis on timely topics of inquiry.Comprehensive reviews of the empirical literature in an area of study that contain a meta-analysis and/or present novel theoretical or methodological perspectives.Comments on articles published in the journal (instructions for Commentaries appear in the Manuscript Submission tab).Case studies from either a clinical setting or a laboratory that raise or illustrate important questions that go beyond the single case and have heuristic value.