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The concept mixed emotions refers to the experience of multiple emotions or affective states at the same time or the toggling between multiple emotions. Studies of mixed emotions include research on a number of distinct phenomena including the co-occurrence of feelings, blends of same and different emotion valences, flexible and dynamic appraisals of emotions and feelings, asynchrony of behavioral reactions and subjective feelings, spillover of moods, fluctuations in feelings, and transitions from one emotion to another. It brings to mind numerous questions about process, for example: Which emotions, emotion components, or affective experiences are mixed? How and why does the mixing process arise? How much time does the process take? When are emotions and affective states mixed: Do some situations/contexts afford a mixture and others not? What functions and outcomes are associated with mixed emotions? Overlaid with these questions, are others about individual and life-span developmental differences in the ability to experience mixed emotions as well as enquiries about measurement and analytic strategies.