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Social Psychological and Personality Science Template

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About the Social Psychological and Personality Science format

Social Psychological and Personality Science is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment. Over its lifetime it has published 1,729 papers, which have received 80,690 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSocial and Intergroup Psychology Cultural Differences and Values Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Behavioral Health and Interventions Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
ISSN1948-5506
Citation impact (2-yr)3.22
h-index127
i10-index1,252
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Toronto
Journal websitewww.uk.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Social Psychological and Personality Science per year

94
2014
99
2015
112
2016
166
2017
95
2018
87
2019
166
2020
134
2021
89
2022
84
2023
78
2024
85
2025

Citation impact of Social Psychological and Personality Science by publication year

4.3K
2014
6.2K
2015
6.1K
2016
13.3K
2017
4.2K
2018
3.7K
2019
6.3K
2020
4.2K
2021
1.7K
2022
723
2023
474
2024
121
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Social Psychological and Personality Science

Equivalence Tests

Daniël Lakens · 1 May 2017

Scientists should be able to provide support for the absence of a meaningful effect. Currently, researchers often incorrectly conclude an effect is absent based a nonsignificant result. A widely recommended approach within a frequentist framework is to test for equivalence. In equivalence tests, such as the two one-sided tests (TOST) procedure discussed in this article,…

2,056 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Determining Power and Sample Size for Simple and Complex Mediation Models

Alexander M. Schoemann, Aaron J. Boulton, Stephen D. Short · 1 May 2017

Mediation analyses abound in social and personality psychology. Current recommendations for assessing power and sample size in mediation models include using a Monte Carlo power analysis simulation and testing the indirect effect with a bootstrapped confidence interval. Unfortunately, these methods have rarely been adopted by researchers due to limited software options and the computational time…

1,735 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results

Michael S. Chmielewski, Sarah C. Kucker · 10 Oct 2019

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is arguably one of the most important research tools of the past decade. The ability to rapidly collect large amounts of high-quality human subjects data has advanced multiple fields, including personality and social psychology. Beginning in summer 2018, concerns arose regarding MTurk data quality leading to questions about the utility of…

1,043 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research

Jessica Kay Flake, Jolynn Pek, Eric Hehman · 28 Feb 2017

The verity of results about a psychological construct hinges on the validity of its measurement, making construct validation a fundamental methodology to the scientific process. We reviewed a representative sample of articles published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology for construct validity evidence. We report that latent variable measurement, in which responses to…

Dead and Alive

Michael Wood, Karen M. Douglas, Robbie M. Sutton · 25 Jan 2012

Conspiracy theories can form a monological belief system: A self-sustaining worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs. The present research shows that even mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively correlated in endorsement. In Study 1 ( n = 137), the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they…

Social Psychological and Personality Science template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Social Psychological and Personality Science format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Social Psychological and Personality Science template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Social Psychological and Personality Science use?
Social Psychological and Personality Science uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Social Psychological and Personality Science?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Social Psychological and Personality Science document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Social Psychological and Personality Science template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Social Psychological and Personality Science format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Social Psychological and Personality Science?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
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