An emotional world

We are grateful to have such enthusiastic and professional support from Bristol University Press, for our dedicated editorial board, and to all of you who submit your great work for publication.Perhaps most of all, we send a massive thank-you to all our reviewers over the past five volumes.Recruiting reviewers is sometimes hard as it seems the world spins faster and faster, squeezing the 'spare time' that most of us need to keep up with unpaid collegiate work in the academy.And yet this work is at the heart of our activity, guaranteeing the quality, reliability and transparency of research.It makes us researchers appear as idealists, conscientious and loyal to the profession, one of the few remaining vocations where professional ethos still challenges the primacy of profit.Arguably, fulfilling collegiate duties is also good for one's career, for academic titles and recognition.But many also do it sincerely, to give back the time others have given them, and because it is interesting and rewarding.We would probably not be researchers if we were not driven by a passion for knowledge and understanding, which includes curiosity to engage with the thinking of others in our own and related fields, constantly expanding our horizons.Commenting, giving and taking critique, are mutual gifts that bind our guild together, making it clear that we researchers, like people in general, are interdependent.In a world fraught with polarisation and strategic positioning, the humility of the peer review practice appears almost like an act of resistance.Therefore, at the end of this first issue of Volume 6, 2024, we present a reviewer acknowledgement of the past two years .In 2023, Emotions and Society received its first JCR (Journal Citation Reports) Clarivate impact factor of 1.3 -a result we were pleased with at this early stage.More than anything it marks that we are now a recognised scientific journal.