SPPS Special Issue on Research Methods

Social Psychological and Personality Science is now accepting submissions for a forthcoming special issue on “New developments in research methods for social/personality psychology.”

Recent advances in research design (e.g., crossed designs; Westfall, Kenny, & Judd, 2014), analysis (e.g., Bayesian approaches; Wagenmakers et al., under review), and meta-science (e.g., p-curve; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, in press) have opened up new possibilities for improving research methods in social and personality psychology.

We are looking to collect a number of high quality articles that address one or more of the following goals:

• Present new methods for the design, collection, or analysis of social/personality studies
• Present existing, underused methods in a new, more accessible way that will encourage their adoption, when appropriate, by social/personality researchers
• Present empirical evidence concerning the utility, strengths, and limitations of social/personality research methods (including meta-science)

As usual, articles cannot exceed 5,000 words (excluding tables, figures, and references) and preference will be given to articles that are written to be accessible to a wide range of audiences.

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2016

Submit your manuscript online at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spps

Comments

[JohnSakaluk]

Exciting opportunity. One question though: is there any opportunity to submit brief proposals/abstracts first, or is full submission or bust?

[Simine Vazire]

Full submissions only, sorry! We wanted to keep the turn-around time short, and adding a proposal review phase would have significantly lengthened the process.
-simine

[Peter Dove]

A shame I missed this! (I'm not going to be able to submit anything in the next 5 days) Do you know if there will be another chance in the future to submit?

[simine vazire]

Peter - We don't have any other special issues planned, but we welcome submissions having to do with methodology outside of special issues as well.
If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me via email (simine at gmail dot com).
simine

[maryjane]

thank you for this.