DOI: 10.1177/1754073914554787

As the introduction to this special section rightly points out, emotions have been the subject of social science research for many decades. From emotional resilience to emotional labor, and positive emotion to emotional energy, this research has largely clustered around Cartesian feeling, Darwinian behavio-ralism, technical linguistic analysis, or the evaluative emphasis of Sartre (Calhoun & Solomon, 1984). In doing so, it has per-petuated the reification of the rational, even as theoretical approaches have sought to reverse the mind–body binary. This form of research is what I refer to as research on emotion. Research on emotion focuses on emotion as a topic of inquiry. It seeks to measure or describe aspects of emotion in the same way that researchers have applied a range of well-established methodologies to other topics of sociological inquiry for many decades. Research on emotion places the par