Abstract: Academic emotions refer to various emotional experiences in connection with students’ academic activities in the teaching or learning process. Its antecedents mainly include individual’s self-cognition, achievement goals, cognitive ability and social environments such as class, family, instruction, etc. Furthermore, the relationship between social environment and academic emotions is mediated by self-cognition. In addition, academic emotions are organized in a domain-specific manner. In the future, more attention will be paid to the conceptual definition, construct and development characteristics of academic emotions. At the same time, it is necessary to give attention to academic emotions of the special students and make some positive intervention to help students avoid negative emotions

Key words: academic emotions, self-cognition, achievement goals, cognitive ability, domain specificity