Emotion in philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences. The journal emphasizes thoughtful analysis of the implications ofboth empirical and experiential (e.g., clinical psychological and phenomenological) approaches to emotion. It will include articles on the implications of empirical findings for an understanding of emotion and consciousness and their interrelations. Consciousness & Emotion i...

Although positive emotions as a class can build interpersonal resources, recent evidence suggests a unique and direct role for gratitude. In the current research, we shine the spotlight on what happens between a grateful person and the benefactor to illuminate what can build a bridge between them. Specifically, we draw on work calling gratitude an “other-praising” emotion. In an original study ...

Objective: Mindfulness skills are assumed to be related with emotions. Deficits in emotion ‎regulation could lead to development and persistence of mood disorders. Dysthymia and double ‎depression are two chronic types of depression. This chronicity can be attributed to the one's ‎inability to regulate his/ her mood. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of mindfulness-‎based cognitive...

Is there something special about the experience of musical emotion? In previous work, Juslin and Västfjäll [8] claimed that music triggers multiple psychological mechanisms which then induce both basic and complex emotions. If we consider the full range of phenomena discussed by Juslin and Västfjäll, it seems clear that a wide range of everyday emotional responses can be triggered by music. For...