Social Psychological and Personality Science
Now published eight times per year, Social Psychological and Personality Science (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!
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 they may present new theory, new data, new methods, or any combination of these. Preference will be given to articles that:
- represent an advance to social psychological or personality science
- are methodologically rigorous
- have theoretical and practical significance
- help build interdisciplinary bridges among areas in social and personality psychology
- are written to be accessible to a wide range of audiences, including science writers for the popular press and the public at large
| Margo J. Monteith | Purdue University, USA |
| Marlone D. Henderson | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| P. Jason Rentfrow | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Supriya Bidola | SAGE Publishing, USA |
| Yoav Bar-Anan | Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
| Jennifer K. Bosson | University of South Florida |
| Christopher M. Federico | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Lowell Gaertner | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Will Gervais | Brunel University London, UK |
| Veronika Job | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Malgorzata Kossowska | Jagiellonian University, Poland |
| Robyn K. Mallett | Loyola University Chicago, USA |
| Yuri Miyamoto | Hitotsubashi University, Japan |
| Danny Osborne | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Richard B. Slatcher | University of Georgia, USA |
| 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, Department of Psychology, 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, Canada |
| Matthew D. Hammond | Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand |
| Steven Heine | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Marie Hennecke | Universität Siegen, Germany |
| Erin P Hennes | Purdue University, USA |
| Lauren J. Human | McGill University, 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 | Yale University, 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, 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 |
| Chadly Stern | University of Illinois, USA |
| 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) |
| Judith Harackiewicz | Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), USA |
| Roland Imhoff | Chair, European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) |
| Kerri Johnson | Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), USA |
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Social Psychological and Personality Science receives manuscript submissions online through SAGE Track, 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. SAGE Track 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.
Content
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. You may present new theory, new data, new methods, or any combination of these. In addition, SPPS will consider strong replication studies, including failed replications, particularly (but not exclusively) of original studies published in SPPS. The journal is geared toward a speedy review and publication process to allow groundbreaking research to become part of the scientific conversation quickly.
Articles cannot exceed 5,000 words (excluding tables, figures, and references).
Preferences will be given to articles that:
- represent an advance to social psychological or personality science
- are methodologically rigorous
- have theoretical and practical significance
- help build interdisciplinary bridges among areas in social and personality psychology
- are written to be accessible to a wide range of audiences, including science writers for the popular press and the public at large.
The submission portal will ask authors to confirm the following:
- Confirm that you have reported how sample size was determined for each study and a discussion of statistical power.
- Confirm that you have reported all data exclusions (e.g., dropped outliers) and how decisions about data exclusions were made.
- Confirm that you have reported all measures or conditions for variables of interest to the research question(s), whether they were included in the analyses or not.
- Confirm that all key results are accompanied by exact p-values, effect sizes, and 95% confidence intervals, or an explanation of why this is not possible.
- Confirm that you have uploaded all materials (e.g., manipulations, measures) either a) as a Supplementary File for online publication only, uploaded during the SAGEtrack submission process, or b) to a public repository, with a link provided in your manuscript, or c) provided an explanation of why this is not possible. Please note that uploaded materials may appear in their original language. However, if authors can convert non-English materials to English without hardship, an English version would be appreciated.
- Confirm that your manuscript indicates whether data are available, and, if so, where to access them. For example, a relevant statement may be provided at the beginning of your Results section.
- Confirm that your manuscript indicates whether code is available, and, if so, where to access it. For example, a relevant statement may be provided at the beginning of your Results section.
- Confirm that all links to online material (e.g., to preregistrations, materials, data, supplemental files, etc.) have been anonymized. The links themselves and all files within may not include information that reveals author identity.
Also note,
- Tables and Figures should be embedded in the manuscript upon submission, not appended at the end of the manuscript.
- When possible,
- meta-analyses conducted across studies are expected
- preregistration of research is recommended.
- providing online access to data and code is recommended.
- The name of the handling editor (or 'action editor') will be printed at the end of each article.
For further information about submission policies and practices, please read Editorial 7(1) and Editorial 11(1).
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.Manuscripts are checked for word length and will be unsubmitted and returned to authors if they exceed the word limit.
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 Seventh 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 supriya.bidola@sagepub.in.