Social Psychology
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- ISSN:
- ISSN-L 1864-9335, ISSN-Print 1864-9335, ISSN-Online 2151-2590
- Impact Factor:
- 1.200 (5 Year Impact Factor: 2.157)
- Indexed in:
- Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), PsycINFO, PSYNDEX, ERIH, Scopus, and EMCare.
- Editors:
- Kai Epstude (Editor-in-chief)
Wim Meerholz (Editorial office) - View full editorial board
Published as Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie (ISSN 0044-3514) until volume 38, 2007
About the journal
Aims and scope
Social Psychology publishes innovative and methodologically sound research and serves as an international forum for scientific discussion and debate in the field of social psychology. Topics include all basic social psychological research themes, methodological advances in social psychology, as well as research in applied fields of social psychology. The journal focuses on original empirical contributions to social psychological research, but is open to theoretical articles, critical reviews, and replications of published research.
Experience and innovation
The journal was published until volume 38 (2007) as the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie (ISSN 0044-3514). Drawing on over 30 years of experience and tradition in publishing high-quality, innovative science as the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, Social Psychology has an internationally renowned team of editors and consulting editors from all areas of basic and applied social psychology, thus ensuring that the highest international standards are maintained.
Rapid turnaround
Social Psychology offers a rapid and transparent peer-review process and a short time-lag between acceptance of papers and publication. The time between manuscript submission and editorial decision is usually less than eight weeks.
Mean time for submission to first decision (2015): 56 days.
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News
Social Psychology is now on Twitter!
The editors set up an account for the journal to keep you posted about the latest news and research in the field of social psychology.
Browse this journal
Recent editorials
2018
Moving Ahead
Kai Epstude
Social Psychology, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 1-2
2017
Towards a Replicable and Relevant Social Psychology
Kai Epstude
Social Psychology, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 1-2
2016
Increasing Replicability
Christian Unkelbach
Social Psychology, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-3
For authors and editors
Call for proposals
Call for Special Issue Proposals
We encourage potential Guest Editors to submit a proposal
to our editorial office by March 17, 2019.
Instructions to authors
We are looking forward to receiving your manuscript for Social Psychology. Please read and take note of the instructions to authors before submitting your manuscript.
All manuscripts should be submitted via Editorial Manager.
Thank you.
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