If you knew any of us from another time or place, in a different context, you may well not fully recognize the positions we take here. This collective project has changed us for now or for good, for better or worse, in all kinds of ways. Even our voices sound different. By some strange ventriloquism, we opened our mouths and heard one of the others speaking (or at least ran our fingers across the keyboard and read someone else’s phrasing on the screen). Of course, none of this happened instantly. Although consensus was intended from the start, it sometimes required a few back-and-forth exchanges to arrive. And even then it didn’t always seem stable. Like emotions, opinions, judgments, and explanations adjust, and adjust to, the unfolding social relations that surround them. To start at the beginning (or at least one version of it), Agneta and Tony convened a symposium on social aspects of emotion at the 1999 conference of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology in Ox
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