Social Psychological and Personality Science
Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) is a unique short reports journal in social and personality psychology. It aims to publish concise reports of empirical studies related to social and personality psychology (5000 words). SPPS strives to publish research that advances social psychological and personality science. Submissions may present new theory, data, methods, or any combination of these. In addition, SPPS will consider replication studies, regardless of whether or not they support the original finding, particularly (but not exclusively) of original studies published in SPPS. The journal strives for a fast review and publication process to allow research to quickly become part of the scientific conversation.
Published eight times per year, SPPS is a collaboration from 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 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!
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spps.
We aim to publish articles that:
- represent an advance to social psychological or personality science,
- are methodologically rigorous,
- have theoretical and/or practical significance,
- help build interdisciplinary bridges among areas in social and personality psychology,
- and are written to be accessible to a wide range of audiences, including science writers for the popular press and the public at large.
| Christian Unkelbach | University of Cologne, Germany |
| Tal Eyal | Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
| Eranda Jayawickreme | Wake Forest University, USA |
| Vidushi Sharma | Sage Publications |
| Rodica Damian | University of Houston |
| Yuthika Girme | Simon Fraser University |
| Adam Hahn | University of Bath, United Kingdom |
| Shenel Husnu | Eastern Mediterranean University |
| André Mata | University of Lisbon |
| Danny Osborne | The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Lora Park | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA |
| Alexa Tullett | University of Alabama |
| Andrew A. Abeyta | Rutgers University-Camden, USA |
| Lara Aknin | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Mark Alicke | Ohio University, USA |
| Leslie Ashburn-Nardo | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
| Fiona Kate Barlow | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Katharina Bernecker | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Monica Biernat | University of Kansas, USA |
| Laura E. R. Blackie | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Nyla Branscombe | University of Kansas, USA |
| Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi | University of Virginia, USA |
| Jimmy Calanchini | University of California Riverside, USA |
| Amy Canevello | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Patricia Chen | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| William J. Chopik | Michigan State University, USA |
| Katherine S. Corker | Grand Valley State University, Department of Psychology, USA |
| Olivier Corneille | UCLouvain, Belgium |
| Maureen A. Craig | New York University, USA |
| Matt Crawford | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Alyssa Croft | The University of Arizona, USA |
| Anna Czarna | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
| Alex M. Czopp | Western Washington University, USA |
| Juliane Degner | Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| Pieter V. Dessel | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Cydney H. Dupree | Yale University, USA |
| Nicholas Epley | University of Chicago, USA |
| Agneta H. Fischer | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| R. Chris Fraley | University of Illinois, USA |
| Stanley O. Gaines | Brunel University London, UK |
| Sarah E. Gaither | Duke University, USA |
| Yuthika Girme | Simon Fraser University |
| Matthew D. Hammond | Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand |
| Steven Heine | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Marie Hennecke | Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| Erin P Hennes | Purdue University, USA |
| Lauren J. Human | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Hans IJzerman | Université Grenoble Alpes, LIP/PC2S, France |
| Keiko Ishii | Nagoya University, Japan |
| Joshua J. Jackson | Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Eranda Jayawickreme | Wake Forest University, USA |
| Lile Jia | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Angel Gómez Jiménez | Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain |
| Samantha Joel | Western University, USA |
| India R. Johnson | Butler University, USA |
| Cheryl R. Kaiser | University of Washington, USA |
| Yoshihisa Kashima | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Laura A. King | University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| Michelle Kline | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Nour Kteily | Northwestern University, USA |
| Benedek Kurdi | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA |
| Kristin Laurin | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Richard E. Lucas | Michigan State University, USA |
| Maike Luhmann | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
| Ariel Malka | Yeshiva University, USA |
| Allen R. McConnell | Miami University, USA |
| Andrea L. Meltzer | Florida State University, USA |
| Thekla Morgenroth | University of Exeter, UK |
| Beth Morling | University of Delaware, USA |
| Corinne A. Moss-Racusin | Skidmore College, USA |
| Amy Muise | York University, Canada |
| Damian R. Murray | Tulane University, USA |
| Michael Muthukrishna | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Jinkyung Na | Sogang University, South Korea |
| Zachary Adolph Niese | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany |
| Michael A. Olson | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Ivuoma N. Onyeador | Northwestern University, USA |
| Sylvia P. Perry | Northwestern University, USA |
| Marco Perugini | University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy |
| Evava S. Pietri | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA |
| Ruthie Pliskin | Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| Felicia Pratto | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Deborah A. Prentice | Princeton University, USA |
| Radmila Prislin | San Diego State University, USA |
| Alan Rauthmann | Universität Bielefeld, Germany |
| John F. Rauthmann | Universität zu Lübeck, Germany |
| Anne K. Reitz | University of Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Jessica Remedios | Tufts University, USA |
| Diana T. Sanchez | Rutgers University, USA |
| Nurit Schnabel | Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
| Emre Selcuk | Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Garriy Shteynberg | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Allison L. Skinner-Dorkenoo | University of Georgia, USA |
| Linda J. Skitka | The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Pamela K. Smith | University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Sarah C. Stanton | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Olga Stavrova | Tilburg University, the Netherlands |
| Melanie C. Steffens | University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany |
| Daniel Sullivan | University of Arizona, USA |
| Janet Swim | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Yukiko Uchida | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Miguel M. Unzueta | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Greta Valenti | Birmingham-Southern College, USA |
| William von Hippel | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Jacquie D. Vorauer | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Duane T. Wegener | Ohio State University, USA |
| Tim Wildschut | University of Southampton, UK |
| Liane Young | Boston College, USA |
| Katie Corker | Association for Research in Personality (ARP) |
| Shira Gabriel | Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) |
| Judith Harackiewicz | Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), USA |
| Roland Imhoff | Chair, European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) |
Social Psychological and Personality Science receives manuscript submissions online through SAGEtrack, powered by ScholarOne's Manuscript CentralTM. Authors should register for an account at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spps, where they will create a login ID and password. SAGEtrack serves as the center for editorial staff to communicate with authors, editors, and reviewers electronically, and it functions as the platform for the review process.
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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. SPPS now also accepts submissions of replication studies. Articles cannot exceed 5,000 words (excluding tables, figures, and references), and may present new theory, new data, new methods, or any combination of these. Preferences will be given to articles that:
For further information about submission policies and practices, please read Editorial 4(1) and Editorial 7(1). CHANGES TO SUBMISSION PROCESS AS OF JULY 1, 2015 Starting July 1, 2015, the following policies will take effect at SPPS:
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION Submissions to SPPS may not exceed 5,000 words. The word count includes all text, including but not limited to, the abstract, main body, notes, and acknowledgements, and excluding references, tables, table notes, figures, and figure captions. To calculate the word count for your submission, please use your word processor to find the total number of words for the entire submission, then subtract the number of words from your references section, tables, table notes, figures, and figure captions. When you determine your final word count please include that information on the title page of your submission. If your submission contains materials, tables, figures, or data sets that you would like to include as a supplementary file for online publication only, you may upload that as a separate file in the submission process and designate the file accordingly. Any file that is designated as being for online publication only will not need to be included in the word count. SPPS conducts a double blind peer review process. Please prepare your manuscript for the double blind process by submitting your title page and main document as two separate files. A short 1-3 sentence biography for each author should be included in the title page, along with any other identifying information such as author names, contact information, author notes or acknowledgements. An abstract of no more than 150 words and list of 4-5 keywords should be included in your main document file, along with the main body, footnotes, tables, and figures. The main document file should be blinded and suitable for viewing by reviewers. Journal policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for consideration by another journal and does not allow publication of a manuscript that has been published in whole or in part by another journal. Authors must also verify compliance with APA ethical standards in the treatment of participants, human or animal. Submissions to SPPS should follow the style guidelines set forth in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (including "Guidelines to Reduce Bias in Language" on pp. 70 -77). If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway. Any inquiries regarding manuscript submission may be directed to the editorial office at arichardson.sagepub@gmail.com.