Motivation and Emotion is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering psychology, with a specific focus on the study of motivation and emotion in humans and other animals.

It was established in 1977 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the journal's official sponsor, the Society for the Science of Motivation.

The journal's third editor-in-chief was Richard M. Ryan, who was succeeded by Johnmarshall Reeve (Korea University) in 2011.

[1] The current editor-in-chief is Michael Richter (Liverpool John Moores University).

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