Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) Update
Simine Vazire
(Editor in Chief)
UC Davis
It's been sixteen months since the new editorial team took the helm at SPPS. In that time, we have received fantastic submissions from all areas of the field of social and personality psychology. We also received submissions for a forthcoming special issue on new methods in social and personality psychology - those submissions are in the review process now and the special issue will be published in the next year.
ARP is one of the four societies that sponsors the journal (along with SPSP, SESP, and EASP), and we enthusiastically welcome new submissions from ARP members. For more information about the journal and editorial policies, see the most recent editorial and our submission guidelines.
In this column I'll highlight a few of the most recent articles published in SPPS that are likely to be of interest to personality enthusiasts (many of which have ARP members as authors). This column presents just a thin slice of the exciting new work that has come out in the last few issues of SPPS. I encourage everyone to browse the full table of contents of recent issues here:
In the last few issues of 2016, you can find the following articles (among many others):
- Hudson and Fraley examine personality change goals across the lifespan, surveying over 6,000 adults. They show that across all ages and for every Big Five dimension, most people want to change their traits at least a little bit. Moreover, older adults' change goals tend to be more modest than young adults'.
- Human and colleagues examine a context in which accurate perceptions of others may be detrimental to the perceiver: adolescents' perceptions of their parents' behavior. Their results suggest that adolescents who have positive illusions about their parents' behavior have lower levels of depression and better regulation of the inflammatory process than do adolescents who have accurate views of their parents' behavior.
- Barranti and colleagues examine the consequences of self-other disagreement about moral character. Using response surface analysis, they show that self-other disagreement about moral character is associated with being liked and respected less by acquaintances.
- Brown and Rauthmann use nationally representative data from the US and Germany to examine cultural and age differences in the situations people experience. For example, among participants in the US, both sociality and negativity of situations increases until age 30, and then decreases from age 30 to 80.
- Zitek and Jordan use correlational and experimental data to show that narcissism is associated with preference for hierarchical organizations, particularly when narcissists possess or believe they can achieve high status.
- Greenberg and colleagues examine the attributes of music, the structure of these attributes, and how preferences for these attributes correlate with personality.
We are extremely grateful to authors for submitting their rigorous work, to reviewers for their service to the journal, and to our readers for their interest in our publication. It is thanks to all of you that SPPS continues to thrive.
Simine Vazire
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
UC Davis