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. Articles should be written in plain English including an abstract no longer than 250 words, avoiding jargon, abbreviations, anthropomorphism, passive voice, and focused on people not constructs/measures (e.g., instead of saying psychopathy correlated with X, say people high in psychopathy were more likely to X). More guidelines on writing advice can be found on the Editor-in-Chief’s website (click here), but articles can be (ideally) brief reports and commentaries (about 2500 words all-inclusive), one study reports (about 2500 - 5000 words all-inclusive), or multi-study reports, meta-analyses, and review papers (about 2500 - 10000 words all-inclusive); exceeding word limits is at the discretion of the EiC for exceptional cases (e.g., new theories, major refutations of others, overly complex studies or designs). As such writing should be geared towards generalist understanding with an eye for media attention for your research (e.g., attention-grabbing title).

Journal History

Starting in 2000, the Studia Psychologica was printed in paper form with ISSN number 1642-2473. In 2015 (date of issue: 2.04.2015) Studia Psychologica - an online version has been registered in the international system of serial information and marked with e-ISSN 2449-5360. From No. 1 in 2015, Studia Psychologica is available in both paper and electronic versions, although full-text versions of magazines are online at www.studia.psychologica.uksw.edu.pl starting in 2009. From 2000 to 2010 the magazine functioned as a yearbook. Since 2011 it functions as a half-year.

The following persons played the role of the  Editor-in-Chief:

Since 2018, the journal functions under the name Studia Psychologica: Theoria et praxis.