Emotional complexity and complex understandings of emotions2 Emotive-cognitive rationality, background emotions and emotion work ÅSA WETTERGREN Introduction 27 Emotion and reason 27 Emotion, action and emotion work 30 Assumptions and implications of the model 32 Emotional regime vs emotive-cognitive frame 33 The Migration Board: procedural correctness 34 Conclusion 37 Notes 38 References 39 3 Conceptualising valences in emotion theories: a sociological approach