Social Psychological and Personality Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Psychology. The journal s editor is Vincent Y. A. Yzerbyt (Catholic University of Louvain). It has been in publication since 2010 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. The journal is jointly owned by four different societies: Association for Research in Personality, European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Society of Experimental and Social Psychology and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science seeks to provide a resource for scholars in social and personality psychology. The quarterly journal publishes reports of both practical and theoretical based research across a range of disciplines. Social Psychological and Personality Science aims to provide a platform for the presentation of new research and also for the discussion and dissemination of case reports. Social Psychological and Personality Science is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:
A team of researchers led by the University of Queensland's Matthew Hornsey has found evidence that suggests people who are conservative are less likely to apologize than are those who are more liberal. In their paper published ...
Organized crime casts a long shadow, driving violence and an illicit economy. But our research, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, has uncovered some more subtle dimensions to its influence, ...
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2023
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For anyone paying attention in the lead-up to the United States midterm elections, it should come as no surprise that people who consider themselves politically conservative see the world differently than those who consider ...
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Oct 20, 2022
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Members of Congress in the United States are less civil on Twitter now than they were at the start of the Obama administration. New research has revealed a 23% increase in online incivility among Congresspeople from 2009-2019, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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American culture values the freedom to change and reinvent one's self. A new study, however, reveals that Americans who do change tend to report a lower sense of well-being.
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2020
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A recent study finds that an online intervention taking less than 30 minutes significantly increased interest in computer science for both male and female undergraduate students. However, when it comes to the intervention's ...
Education
May 6, 2019
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An amusing commercial shows someone having a bad day, and how that person's mood affects each person down the line, with more bad moods. This emotional "contagion" may be a real-world phenomenon, and it appears that what ...
Social Sciences
Dec 27, 2018
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Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the United States or for the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, revealing a new trend that could help explain the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2018
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It's long been associated with anger and coarseness but profanity can have another, more positive connotation. Psychologists have learned that people who frequently curse are being more honest. Writing in the journal Social ...
Social Sciences
Jan 16, 2017
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What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others. Using publicly available tweets, social psychologists and computer scientists from the University of Pennsylvania Positive ...
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2016
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