# Emotion as Process **Opening (not a real abstract):** Most philosophers and psychologists of emotion have distinguished between emotions as long-term states or dispositions such as enduring love or lifelong resentment, and emotions as relatively short episodes, such as flashes of anger, bouts of fear, surges of affection, fits of gloom, or spasms of contempt. Philosophers have a tendency to identify these emotional episodes with some other type of mental state or event, such as appraisals (Solomon 1976, 1988; Nussbaum 2001), perceptions (Döring 2007; Tappolet 2010), “feelings towards” (Goldie 2000, 2002), “felt bodily attitudes” (Deonna and Teroni 2012a), or “gut reactions” (Prinz 2004). In this chapter I will argue that even the shortest emotional episode (henceforth “emotion”) is in fact a process, which includes a number of different states that are causally linked together. **Authors:** [[Jenefer Robinson]]