Journals
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology publishes three journals. Select a journal name below to learn more and find important links for each publication.
SPSP members can access these journals online by signing in and selecting the Journal Access link.
Progress Report: How Personality and Social Psychology Review is Creating Culture Change
When their term began in 2022, the PSPR editors pledged to promote inclusivity in personality and social psychology. In a new article, they provide updates on their efforts and discuss the path forward.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB) is an international outlet for original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology. Published monthly, PSPB is consistently ranked among the most prestigious journals in social and personality psychology, according to the Social Science Citation Index.
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Questions?
- Submission Guidelines & Content: Editor Michael D. Robinson ([email protected])
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Editorial Team
Michael D. Robinson (Ph.D. 1996, University of California, Davis) is a Professor of Psychology at North Dakota State University. Michael’s research focuses on social cognitive and cognitive-emotional processes within diverse realms including personality, self-regulation, well-being, and aggression. Michael has previously served as a co-editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and an associate editor for Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, Emotion, and Cognition and Emotion.
Yuen J. Huo (Ph.D. 1997, University of California, Berkeley) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Yuen’s research focuses on group processes and intergroup relations with an emphasis on how social identity processes affect relationships among people in diverse groups, organizations, and communities. Yuen has previously served as co-editor, associate editor, and consulting editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She has also served on the editorial board of Social Issues and Policy Review.
Emily A. Impett (Ph.D. 2004, University of California, Los Angeles) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She conducts research on topics at the intersection of sexuality, close relationships, motivation, and emotions and is particularly interested in understanding how giving to or making sacrifices for others can enhance versus detract from the quality of interpersonal bonds. Emily has previously served as an associate editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Benjamin M. Wilkowski (Ph.D. 2008, North Dakota State University) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wyoming. Ben’s research focuses on how people’s goals and emotions guide their social interactions by binding them into relationships and groups. He is currently developing a taxonomy of goal contents using lexical methodology. Ben has previously served as an associate editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and an action editor for the Social Psychological and Personality Compass, Emotion and Motivation Division.
Personality and Social Psychology Review (PSPR) is devoted to publishing original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles in personality and social psychology. The journal is intended as a forum for conceptual pieces that initiate new lines of research and theory or provide a coherent framework for existing theory and programs of research.
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- Submission Guidelines & Content: Editor Jonathan M. Adler ([email protected])
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Editorial Team
- Jonathan M. Adler (Olin College of Engineering) studies the dynamic relationship between narrative identity development and psychological well-being, using methods ranging from psychobiography to longitudinal quantitative modeling. He is a personality and clinical psychologist and has also been a Visiting Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Chief Academic Officer of Health Story Collaborative, a non-profit organization seeking to elevate the importance of personal stories in healthcare. Jonathan is also a playwright and theater director.
- Kathleen Bogart (Oregon State University) has led the psychological study of disability, ableism, and rare disorders such as facial paralysis. She is a social and health psychologist and one of the co-founders of SPSP's Disability Advocacy and Research Network.
- Eranda Jayawickreme is the Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow at the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. His work focuses on post-traumatic growth, moral personality, personality dynamics, and well-being. His awards include the 2023 Early Career Contributions Award from the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology, the 2018 Faculty Excellence in Research Award from Wake Forest, and the 2015 Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
- Cindy McPherson Frantz (Oberlin College) has forged new directions in efforts to deploy social psychological insights to reshape humans' relationship with the natural world. She is a social and environmental psychologist committed to interdisciplinary theory building to address real problems and directs the Community Based Social Marketing Lab at Oberlin.
- Phia Salter (Davidson College) has built vital connections between the psychological study of race and systematic racism with critical perspectives from the humanities and other social sciences. She is a social and cultural psychologist who also works to influence diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education as well as K-12 teacher-training programs.
- Sarah Stanton (University of Edinburgh) has advanced the psychological study of close relationships, attachment, and health and well-being. She is a social and health psychologist with a strong interest in developing interventions to promote positive relationship experiences and understanding the mechanisms that link close relationships and health and well-being across the lifespan.
Published eight times per year, Social Psychological and Personality Science 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.
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Questions?
- Submission Guidelines & Content: Editor Christian Unkelbach ([email protected])
- Questions Regarding Accepted Manuscripts: [email protected]
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Editorial Team
Christian Unkelbach is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cologne in Germany. His research examines the interaction of ecological factors and cognitive processes to explain social and economic behavior. He is the chair of the Social Cognition Center Cologne and an executive board member of the Center for Social and Economic Behavior in Cologne. He has previously served as associate editor for Social Psychology, Experimental Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition and editor-in-chief for Social Psychology.
Tal Eyal is an associate professor of social psychology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She studies the interface between emotion, cognition, and motivation. She primarily examines how distinct emotions are regulated by different strategies and how they influence self-regulation. She also examines what enables mind perception accuracy. She previously served as associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition.
Eranda Jayawickreme is the Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow at the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. His work focuses on post-traumatic growth, moral personality, personality dynamics, and well-being. His awards include the 2023 Early Career Contributions Award from the International Society for the Science of Existential Psychology, the 2018 Faculty Excellence in Research Award from Wake Forest, and the 2015 Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
The journal publishes the highest-quality theoretical, methodological, empirical, applied, and commentary papers continuously once they are ready—exclusively in an online open-access format (i.e., with no article processing charges or paywalls). Personality Science will be re-launched in 2024, in partnership with Sage, and several collaborator organizations. The partnership is comprised of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Association for Research in Personality (ARP), the Japan Society of Personality Psychology (JSPP), and the Australasian Congress on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID).
Editor
Jaap Denissen is a professor of Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research examines the development of various aspects of human personality, including but not limited to descriptive traits, motives, and identity. As predictors, he frequently focuses on contextual factors such as life events and/or the quality of social relationships. He has held numerous administrative positions (e.g., director of the research master Individual Differences and Assessment at Tilburg University). He has also served as associate editor for a number of journals, including the European Journal of Personality, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
SPSP continually strives to improve the editorial review process at its journals (PSPB, PSPR, and in collaboration with other societies, SPPS). As part of this effort, SPSP’s Promoting Inclusive Excellence in Publications Committee deeply appreciates feedback from authors about exclusionary experiences encountered in your review process. The committee especially wants to know about (and work to address) experiences within the review process that reinforce historical inequalities in the field. You can report your experience using this form.