A wearable electronic device and an emotion monitoring method are provided. The wearable electronic device includes: a physiological data monitoring sensor configured to acquire current physiological state data of a wearer in real time; a data memory configured to pre-store physiological state data of the wearer in a preset emotional state; a first comparator configured to compare the current physiological state data acquired by the physiological data monitoring sensor with the pre-stored physiological state data, so as to determine whether or not the wearer is currently in the preset emotional state, thereby to acquire a first comparison result; and an instruction generator configured to generate an emotional monitoring output instruction in accordance with the first comparison result.