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 are Sander L. Koole (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Klaus Rothermund (University of Jena).

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.

As of 2020, Cognition and Emotion features a new section that is exclusively focused on theory development (Rothermund & Koole, 2020).

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).

Having no words for feelings: alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion.

Three decades of Cognition & Emotion: A brief review of past highlights and future prospects.