''Social Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

covering research in

social psychology Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the ...

. It focuses on empirical contributions to the field.

History

''Social Psychology'' was established in 1970 as the ''Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie'' by Hubert Feger, Carl Friedrich Graumann, Klaus Holzkamp, and Martin Irle. Its publishing language was German, and the journal was published by Verlag Hans Huber (Bern, Switzerland). In the second half of the 1980s, the founding editors were successively replaced and terms have since been limited to about four years. In the year 2000, the journal adopted English as a second publishing language, which became the sole publishing language in 2008 when the journal moved to

Hogrefe Publishing Hogrefe Publishing Group (formerly Verlag Hans Huber) is an international company that publishes academic journals and books in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. The first company in the group, Hogrefe Verlag Göttingen, was founded in 1949 ...

and its title was changed to ''Social Psychology''. Previous editors-in-chief include

Gerd Bohner Gerd Bohner (born 1959) is a professor of social psychology at Bielefeld University. Academia Bohner studied psychology at Heidelberg University (1980-1986) and obtained his PhD in 1990. Since 2001, he has been head of the Social Psychology Unit ...

(

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization ...

), Hans-Peter Erb ( Helmut Schmidt University), and Christian Unkelbach (

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

). Since spring 2016, Kai Epstude (

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

) is the editor-in chief.

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* Social psychology journals Publications established in 1970 Bimonthly journals English-language journals Hogrefe Publishing academic journals {{social-psych-journal-stub