Focus and Scope

Studia Psychologica: Theoria et praxis (SPTP) is a truly interdisciplinary journal. That is, not just publishing articles in a single field like social or personality psychology that might differ in epistemological or methodological ways, the journal is designed for a generalist audience in all the psychological sciences, broadly defined. For instance, we are interested in review, theory-testing, and commentary papers that span both applied and basic areas of research. Applied areas can be construed to include organizational psychology, health psychology, behavioral economics, prejudice intervention studies, and clinical psychology. Basic research can be construed to mean scale development, validation, translation, sex research, intelligence research, personality research, cyberpsychology, group dynamics, and interpersonal relationships. At the journal, we have no particular philosophical (e.g., feminist psychology) or theoretical (e.g., evolutionary psychology) position and we welcome papers from areas like psychodynamic, humanistic, constructivist, and biological takes on psychology. We do, however, have one bias: we are more trusting of quantitative methods (following the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines) so we will only consider exceptional qualitative work or qualitative work used to feed into or augment quantitative approaches. That said, we do not want the journal (or the field) to confuse sophisticated statistical analyses with more scientific approaches and, thus, we encourage submissions using the most basic yet suitable statistical analyses possible (e.g., do not use an F-test when a t-test will do) and only reporting what is needed to make sense of any statistical effects. We encourage a priori power analyses for all studies along with the use of online databases like the Open Science Framework. Articles will be published in English and have open access to increase international readership.