Now published eight times per year, Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) is a collaboration of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), and is co-sponsored by the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) and Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP). The founding and sponsoring societies provide their membership with complimentary subscriptions, immediately giving the journal a reach of over 10,000 scholars in social and personality psychology worldwide!
SPPS is a unique short reports journal in social and personality psychology. Its aim is to publish concise reports of empirical studies that provide meaningful contributions to our understanding of important issues in social and personality psychology. SPPS strives to publish innovative, rigorous, and impactful research. It is geared toward a speedy review and publication process to allow groundbreaking research to become part of the scientific conversation quickly. This journal is a member of COPE.
Articles should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references) and may present new theory, new data, new methods, or any combination of these. Preference will be given to articles that:
- have theoretical and practical significance
- represent an advance to social psychological or personality science
- are of broad interest both within and outside of social and personality psychology
- are written to be understandable by a wide range of readers, including science writers for the popular press
SPPS Questions
Submission Guidelines / Content: Editor Margo J. Monteith (mmonteit@purdue.edu)
Questions Regarding Accepted Manuscripts: Katy Butcher (Katy.Butcher@sagepub.co.uk)
SageTrack: Supriya Bidola (supriya.bidola@sagepub.in)
Other: info@spsp.org
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