Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

Germany

Journal ISSN: 21953325

Publisher: PsychOpen

History: 2013-2021

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Scope/Description:

The Journal of Social and Political Psychology JSPP is a peerreviewed openaccess journal without author fees published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems their reduction and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on sociopolitical issues from related fields of psychology e.g. peace psychology community psychology cultural psychology environmental psychology media psychology economic psychology and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives.JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes highquality work from different epistemological methodological theoretical and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation questioning of assumptions and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education policymaking professional practice and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and metatheoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypotheticodeductive model of science quantitative methodology and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions e.g. qualitative and mixedmethods research participatory action research critical psychology social representations narrative and discursive approaches. Because it is published online JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.