Scope & Focus

Throughout history, human minds, identities, and behaviors have not operated in isolation, but have instead been shaped by the peoples, communities, and cultures they interact with. Whether it be through their neighbors, families, groups, political and religious leaders, or even something as abstract as prevailing social norms or cultural values, the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by these interactions – no matter whether they are direct, vicarious, or just imagined. Social Psychology is the scientific study of how these influences occur – it is about how people think, influence, and relate to one another.

Given the increasingly interconnected nature of our societies and communities, our ability to spread ideas, influence each other’s deepest hopes and fears, and even our perceptions of our own bodies, furthering our knowledge of this subject is more crucial than ever. This Gateway exists to facilitate a rapid avenue of publications on Social Psychology. The F1000Research publishing model is uniquely positioned to offer researchers in Social Psychology an avenue for quick and transparent, high-quality publication regardless of their research.

This new Gateway welcomes submissions addressing a range of topics in Social Psychology from a variety of approaches and methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative. The scope of the Gateway includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
 

• Applied social psychology
• Attitudes and persuasion
• Body image
• Close relationships
• Cultural and cross-cultural psychology
• Decision-making
• Group processes
• Interdependence
• Intergroup relations
• Language and discourse
• Leadership
• Person perception
• Prosocial behavior
• Self-regulation and self-control
• Social cognition
• Social identities
• Social influence
• Social psychological aspects of emotion, motivation, affect, and cognition
• Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination

The range of article types offered by F1000Research facilitates the dissemination of work as openly and quickly as possible through case studies, empirical reports, data notes, method articles, study protocols, and software tools, as well as research and review articles. Each publication will undergo fully transparent post-publication peer review following the F1000Research publication model.
 
If you are interested in contributing an article to the Gateway, would like to propose a themed collection on a subject related to the Gateway or otherwise have any questions, please get in contact with us via publishing@F1000.com.