ABSTRACT
On the face of it, emotion and social psychology are not near neighbors in the constellation of disciplines, subdisciplines, and topics that form the psychological sciences. The defining attribute of emotion, one could reasonably argue, is its subjective experience, its intrapersonal character. It does not, on this view, appear to be a natural topic of interest for social psychologists, who are concerned above all with what happens between people. Yet social psychologists have had an enduring interest in emotion, and this interest has resulted in several significant contributions to emotion theory.
