Our emotions define us as individuals: Each of us has unique ways of feeling and emotionally responding. In this Special Issue several contemporary approaches to emotion are used to gain insight in th
The question ‘how far can emotions be changed?’ lies at the heart of innumerable psychological interventions. Although often viewed as static, changes in the intensity, quality, and complexity of emot
The case made here is that context has largely been neglected in psychology. Mesquita (cultural and social psychology, U. of Leuven, Belgium) introduces what the editors term the "essentialist error,"
