Giovanna Colombetti1, Bradley J. Irish2 and Brian Parkinson3
1 Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
2 Department of English, Arizona State University
3 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Emotion Review has been at the forefront of academic thinking about emotion and stimulated many productive theoretical debates since the first issue appeared in 2009. Its success is due in large part to the hard work and insightful leadership of an impressive succession of previous editors-in-chief.
The new editors took over in 2022. They are Giovanna Colombetti (philosophy), Bradley J. Irish (humanities), and Brian Parkinson (psychology). This is the first time that non-psychologists have overseen Emotion Review and we hope that this sends an important message about the journal’s interdisciplinary mission.
Interdisciplinarity is often touted as a project’s selling point without clear plans for putting it into practice. Our knowledge of intersections between different domains of scholarship will enable us to foster genuine dialogue between them. Where appropriate, we will cultivate debate across the usual disciplinary boundaries by inviting commentaries from experts in relevant research areas.
We continue to encourage submissions that propose new theoretical approaches, provide novel integrations of existing knowledge, advance understanding of existing emotional phenomena or identify new topics for research. We are also happy to consider commentaries on papers published in this and other journals. This is in addition to the invited commentaries we will solicit on articles prior to publication.
Special Sections will also continue to be a key feature of our publication plans. Emotion Review has been highly successful in setting out the state of the art in current theoretical thinking and pointing the way forward throughout its history and we hope to extend this tradition by addressing emergent topics and revisiting recurrent ones. We welcome proposals for Special Sections from readers and are happy to support prospective editors in compiling them.
In sum, we seek to publish rigorous and systematic theoretical contributions that bring conceptual clarity to a variety of emotionally relevant topics – especially if they allow readers from different disciplines to appreciate the implications for their own research areas. Our overall aim is to encourage theoretically and empirically informed dialogue about issues that potentially benefit from a multidisciplinary perspective.
