Three decades of Cognition & Emotion: A brief review of past highlights and future prospects

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Table 1. Highlights from 30 years of Cognition & Emotion.

	Editors	Three most cited papers	Major trends
1987–1999: The pioneering years	Fraser Watts (Founding Editor, 1987–1995) Gerrod W. Parrott (1995–1999)	1. Ekman (1992). An argument for basic emotions. 2. Davidson (1998a). Affective style and affective disorders: Perspectives from affective neuroscience. 3. Gross and Levenson (1995). Emotion elicitation using films.	Formulation of modern appraisal theories Rise of biological theories of emotion Development of rigorous paradigms for studying emotion-cognition interactions
2000–2007: The rise of empiricism	Craig Smith (2000–2007)	1. Fredrickson and Branigan (2005). Positive emotions broaden the scope of attention and thought-action repertoires. 2. Lerner and Keltner (2000). Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice. 3. Fox, Russo, and Dutton (2002). Attentional bias for threat: Evidence for delayed disengagement from emotional faces.	Rise of attentional bias research Age of automaticity in affective processing and evaluation Increased study of social and cultural context of emotion
2008–2017: Sustained growth and reproducibility crisis	Jan De Houwer & Dirk Hermans (2008–2012) Agneta Fischer & Carien van Reekum (2013–2017)	1. Langner et al. (2010). Presentation and validation of the Radboud Faces Database. 2. Koole (2009). The psychology of emotion regulation: An integrative review. 3. Mauss and Robinson (2009). Measures of emotion: A review.	Emerging consensus on emotions as multi-modal systems Rise of affective neuroscience Increased study of higher-order cognitive processes like working memory and emotion regulation

Table 2. Special issues in Cognition & Emotion: 1987–1999.

Guest editor/s (year)	Title
Oatley (1987)	Cognitive science and the understanding of emotions
Watts (1988)	Repression, catharsis, and dreaming
Mathews (1988)	Information processing and the emotional disorders
Izard (1989)	Development of emotion-cognition relations
Watts (1990)	Evaluative conditioning
Manstead (1991)	Emotion in social life
Stein and Oatley (1992)	Basic emotions: Theory and measurement
Frijda (1993a)	Appraisal and beyond
Dunn (1995)	Children’s cognitive and emotional development
Gotlib, Kurtzman, and Blehar (1997)	The cognitive psychology of depression
Davidson (1998b)	Neuropsychological perspectives on affective and anxiety disorders

Table 3. Special issues in Cognition & Emotion: 2000–2007.

Guest editor/s (year)	Title
Schwarz (2000)	Emotion, cognition, and decision making
De Houwer and Hermans (2001)	Automatic affective processing
Manstead and Fischer (2002)	Culture and emotion: Beyond the universality-specificity dichotomy
Hertel (2002)	Cognitive biases in anxiety and depression
Russell (2003)	The return of pleasure
Wessel and Wright (2004)	Emotional memory failures
De Houwer, Baeyens, and Field (2005)	Associative learning of likes and dislikes
Raes, Hermans, Philppot, and Kremers (2006)	Autobiographical memory specificity and psychopathology
Shields and Kappas (2006)	Magda B. Arnold’s contributions to emotion research and theory
Eder, Hommel, and De Houwer (2007)	How distinctive is affective processing? On the implications of using cognitive paradigms to study affect and emotion

Table 4. Special issues in Cognition & Emotion: 2008–2017.

Guest editor/s (year)	Title
Field, Cartwright-Hatton, Reynolds, and Creswell (2008)	Child anxiety theory and treatment
Kuppens, Stouten, and Mesquita (2009)	Individual differences in emotion components and dynamics
Derakshan and Eysenck (2010)	Emotional states, attention, and working memory
Koole and Rothermund (2011)	The psychology of implicit emotion regulation
Isaacowitz and Riediger (2011)	When age matters: Developmental perspectives on cognition and emotion
Hareli and Hess (2012)	The social signal value of emotions
van Kleef and Fischer (2016)	Emotional collectives: How groups shape emotions and emotions shape groups

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