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''Cognition and Emotion'' is a
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ed
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with a specific focus on the interplay between thinking and feeling, or
cognition Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thoug ...
and
emotion Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. ...
. Within Western thought, cognition and emotion have traditionally been conceived as adversaries. However, it is also possible to understand emotion within a cognitive framework, or to treat cognition and emotion as integrated neural networks . These and other perspectives on the relation between cognition and emotion are studied and debated within the pages of Cognition & Emotion. Cognition and Emotion has an interdisciplinary orientation and publishes contributions from
cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
,
social psychology Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the ...
,
personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * construction of a ...
, developmental psychology,
psychophysiology Psychophysiology (from Greek , ''psȳkhē'', "breath, life, soul"; , ''physis'', "nature, origin"; and , ''-logia'') is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. While psychophysiology was ...
, and
cognitive neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience is the scientific field that is concerned with the study of the biological processes and aspects that underlie cognition, with a specific focus on the neural connections in the brain which are involved in mental process ...
. The idea for Cognition and Emotion was conceived by Fraser Watts and Mark Williams (Oatley, Parrott, Smith, & Watts, 2011). Watts and Williams were trying to understand the role of cognition in emotional disorders, and how these could be treated by
cognitive therapy Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one therapeutic approach within the larger group of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s. Co ...
. They noted that the interplay between cognition and emotion was also studied in other fields but there was little communication between these fields. Cognition and Emotion was therefore founded by Watts, who edited the journal between 1987 and 1995. The first article to appear in Cognition and Emotion was a theoretical article by Howard Leventhal and Klaus Scherer (Leventhal & Scherer, 1987). Subsequent editors-in-chief were Gerrod W. Parrott (1995–1999), Craig Smith (2000–2007, Jan De Houwer and Dirk Hermans (2008–2012), and Agneta Fischer and Carien van Reekum (2013–2017). As of 2017, the
editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
are Sander L. Koole (
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...
) and Klaus Rothermund (
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). In a brief review article for the 30th anniversary of the journal, Rothermund and Koole (2018) distinguished three periods in the history of Cognition and Emotion. The first period, from 1987 to 1999, was a pioneering time when cognitive theories began to be applied to the scientific analysis of emotion. The second period, from 2000 to 2007, had a marked increase in the number of empirical research papers, many of which were concerned with automatic processing biases and their implications for clinical psychology. During the third period, from 2008 to 2018, a new focus emerged on self-regulatory processes and how these influence emotion. Cognition and Emotion is currently published eight times per year by
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. The journal publishes empirical articles, review articles, and theoretical articles. As of 2020, the Cognition and Emotion features a new section that is exclusively focused on theory development (Rothermund & Koole, 2020). The Theory section is edited by Klaus Scherer. The majority of contributions to the journal are submitted by individual researchers or research teams. Most years, however, the journal also publishes Special Issues, which consist of a collection of articles that are centred around a specific theme. Some of the most recent Special Issues focused on emotional collectives (Van Kleef & Fischer, 2016), anxiety and depression (Eysenck & Fajkowska, 2018), horizons of cognition and emotion research (Koole & Rothermund, 2019), automatic processes in evaluative learning (Hütter & Rothermund, 2020), and alexithymia (Luminet, Nielson, & Ridout, 2021). According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
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of 2.679. Within Cognitive and Experimental Psychology, it is a Q2 journal according t
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References

Eysenck, M. W., & Fajkowska, M. (2018). Anxiety and depression: toward overlapping and distinctive features. Cognition & Emotion, 32, 1391–1400. Oatley, K., Parrott, W. G., Smith, C., & Watts, F. (2011). Cognition and emotion over twenty-five years. Cognition & Emotion, 25(8), 1341–1348. Hütter, M., & Rothermund, K. (2020). Automatic processes in evaluative learning. Cognition & Emotion, 34, 1-20. Koole, S. L., & Rothermund, K. (2019). Revisiting the past and back to the future: Horizons of cognition and emotion research. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 1–7. Leventhal, H., & Scherer, K. (1987). The relationship of emotion to cognition: A functional approach to a semantic controversy. Cognition & Emotion, 1, 3-28. Luminet, O., Nielson, K. A., & Ridout, N. (2021). Having no words for feelings: alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 35, 435–448. Rothermund, K., & Koole, S. L. (2018). Three decades of Cognition & Emotion: A brief review of past highlights and future prospects. Cognition & Emotion, 32(1), 1–12. Rothermund, K., & Koole, S. L. (2020). Rethinking emotion science: new theory section for Cognition & Emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 34, 628–632. Van Kleef, G. A., & Fischer, A. H. (2016). Emotional collectives: How groups shape emotions and emotions shape groups. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 3–19. Chicago


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