This article discusses the importance of metaemotions (emotions about emotions), showing their undeniable existence and how they are a critical and essential part of emotion life. The article begins by placing reflexivity of emotions within the general reflexivity of human beings. Then, the article presents the literature on metaemotion, showing some of the problems that surround them, which ultimately will lead to ask if the concept of metaemotion is really necessary. The second part of the article argues for the usefulness of the concept, pointing out its role in establishing distinctions among emotional states as well as further clarifying the nature of emotion, and concludes on pointing out some of the directions for future research on metaemotions.

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This paper follows a Deweyan suggestion and proposes a structure for emotional activity -pattern of sentiment-as a way to grasp emotional experience in its live occurrence by building upon Dewey's crucial notion of situation. The first part outlines Dewey's criticisms of James's idea of emotion, and verifies the ways in which the recent developments of neuroscience overcome these. Given that Dewey's work is a propitious ground for continuing to renew the discourse about the activities of mind the second part of the paper outlines a pattern for emotional activity, setting up the first steps for a situational approach of Deweyan inspiration to the nature of emotion. I conclude by pointing out how such a pattern may be a unifying tool for the different emotion theories briefly describing some of the rich directions it provides for future research on the philosophy of emotion.