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Welcome to the Psychology area of www.elsevier.com which provides you with access to news, resources and information about Elsevier’s publications in Psychology.  Click here to access full-text online for 74 Psychology journals and related titles.

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Citations of Excellence Award from Emerald Management

Articles listed in the top 50 management articles out of 15,000 published in 2008 include:


New Editor for External linkJournal of Research in Personality – Richard E. Lucas.

Rich Lucas (Michigan State University) began as Editor-in-Chief of the External linkJournal of Research in Personality in January 2009. He is joined by Associate Editors, M. Brent Donnellan (Michigan State University), Phebe Cramer (Williams College, MA) and Peter Borkenau (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany). Elsevier would like to thank outgoing Editor-in-Chief Laura King and outgoing Associate Editors William Fleeson, Barbara Woike and Kennon Sheldon for their fantastic work over the last 3 years.

External linkMENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY – New Journal

The journal was launched in June 2008 to critical acclaim and has even featured on the USA NBC prime time drama Grey’s Anatomy as key reading in the therapist’s office. (Episode on April 23, 2009).

Featured Articles for Mental Health and Physical Activity - Now Available on ScienceDirect

External linkChange in self-esteem, self-efficacy and the mood dimensions of depression as potential mediators of the physical activity and depression relationship: Exploring the temporal relation of change
Available online 24 March 2009
Karen White, Tony Kendrick, Lucy Yardley

External linkA genetic perspective on the association between exercise and mental health
E.J.C. de Geus, M.H.M. de Moor
Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2008, Pages 53-61

External linkFeasibility and effects of a group-based resistance and aerobic exercise program for individuals with severe schizophrenia: A multidisciplinary approach
Available online 28 November 2008
Susan Marzolini, Beth Jensen, Patricia Melville


Latest Special Invited Review for Brain and Cognition

We are pleased to present a series of special invited reviews.

External linkThe developmental cognitive neuroscience of functional connectivity
Michael Stevens
Brain and Cognition, Volume 70, Issue 1


External linkResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders and External linkBody Image, An International Journal of Research to receive Impact Factors

External linkResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders, launched in 2007, and External linkBody Image, An International Journal of Research, 2004, have been accepted by Thomson Reuters into the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, and will receive Impact Factors. Click on the journal covers for more information.


Field-leading rapid publication in Elsevier’s Personality and Social Psychology journals.

Elsevier’s journals External linkJournal of Experimental Social Psychology, External linkJournal of Research in Personality, and External linkPersonality and Individual Differences all offer extremely rapid publication post-acceptance. By having flexibly sized issues, articles will now usually be published in the next available issue after acceptance, and not have to wait for when there is budgeted space in future issues.

All 3 journals have multiple submission types (including briefer reports). External linkJournal of Experimental Social Psychology has launched a new type of report – FlashReports - to further aid rapid and succinct reporting. Please see specific information about the individual journals External linkhere

 

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Discover the Top25 Hottest Articles on ScienceDirect
Now you can keep track of the latest trends in your speciality and find out what your colleagues are reading.

External link  check out the ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles in Psychology

Featured Articles

External link  Endorsing Obama licenses favoring Whites
Daniel A. Effron, Jessica S. Cameron, Benoît Monin
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 590-593, May 2009

External link  From Personality and Assessment (1968) to Personality Science, 2009
Walter Mischel
Journal of Research in Personality, Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 282-290, April 2009

External link  Stop Thinking and Start Doing: Switching From Cognitive Therapy to Behavioral Activation in a Case of Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression
Bottonari, K.A.: Roberts, J.E.; Thomas, S.N.; Read, J.P.
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 376-386, November 2008

External link  The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control
Walter Boot, Arthur Kramer, Daniel Simons, Monica Fabiani and Gabriele Gratton
Acta Psychologica, Volume 129, Issue 3, Pages 387-398, November 2008

External linkSay it with flowers! An fMRI study of object mediated communication
Kristian Tylén, Mikkel Wallentin and Andreas Roepstorff
Brain and Language, Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages 159-166, March 2009

 

Special Issues

External link  Critical Acculturation Psychology
Edited by Valery Chirkov
International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 87 – 182 (March 2009)

External linkSocial Networking on the Internet - Developmental Implications
Guest Edited by Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia M. Greenfield
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology,Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 415-474, (November-December 2008)View the issue on External linkScienceDirect here or External linkview the UCLA press release

External linkCognitive Science of Text
Guest Edited by Joanne Arciuli
Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 217-312 (May 2009)

External linkPersonality and Assessment at Age 40: Reflections on the Past Person–Situation Debate and Emerging Directions of Future Person-Situation Integration - Personality and Assessment at Age 40
Edited by M. Brent Donnellan, Richard E. Lucas and William Fleeson
Journal of Research in Personality,Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 117-290 (April 2009)

External link  Personality, Psychopathology, and Original Minds
Edited by Gordon Claridge
Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 46, Issue 8, Pages 749-838 (June 2009)  



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