Cognition and Emotion over twenty-five years

Abstract

In the 25 years since its foundation, Cognition and Emotion has become a leading psychological journal of research on emotion. Here we review some of the ways in which this has occurred. Questions have included how parallel systems of cognition and emotion can operate in emotion regulation and psychological therapies (including the issue of free will), how the cognitive approach to emotion works, how emotion affects attention, memory, and decision making, and how emotion research is moving beyond the individual mind into the space of the interpersonal.

Keywords:

• Emotion regulation
• Therapy
• Attention
• Memory
• Social sharing

Acknowledgments

We warmly thank Dirk Hermans and Jan De Houwer for their input to this paper.