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.
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Now Seeking the Next Editor of PSPB
SPSP is now accepting nominations for the next editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Learn more about this opportunity and nominate yourself or a colleague before the deadline on October 13!
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PSPR: Strengthening Our Field Through Diversity
A new pilot fellowship program launched at Personality and Social Psychology Review is designed to create a supportive pathway to editorial leadership for psychologists from communities who have been historically excluded from these roles.
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.
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.
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.
Amber Gayle Thalmayer (University of Zürich) has conducted groundbreaking research aimed at understanding the extent to which prevailing models of personality traits and mental health replicate in African and other majority-world contexts. She is a personality and cultural psychologist with a strong interest in measurement and seeking to identify what is more universal, versus more culturally specific, in personality, mental health, and their development across the lifespan.
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.