The international journal Studia Psychologica is published by the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. The journal publishes original articles in the area of psychology with a focus on cognitive and emotional processes in personality, social and developmental context.The journal aims to bring together work on cognition and emotion undertaken by researchers in the area of the cognitive, social, personality and developmental psychology, psychophysiology, neuropsychology/neuroscience, etc. We publish empirical articles up to approximately 6000 words, including new empirical contributions, replications, and meta-analyses.

ISSN 2585-8815 (online)

ISSN 0039-3320 (print)

Journal Link: https://www.studiapsychologica.com/

Scopus Link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/15302  

Publication fee: No APC

indexing/abstracting: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal Citation Reports (JCR), PsychInfo, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, PubPsych, CEJSH – Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, DOAJ

The journal publishes papers in cognitive psychology and personality psychology, and generally rejects papers that are too specialized (e.g., from the fields of education, clinical psychology, etc.).

The editors accept only contributions written in English. For editors and reviewers to accurately assess your manuscript, please, make sure the English language is of sufficient quality to be understood. We strongly recommend using professional language copy editors who will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and the manuscript adheres to APA standards.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). Review APA’s Checklist for Manuscript Submission before submitting your article. For easy navigation, you can also check https://www.psychopen.eu/author_guidelines/. This journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Submission items include a cover letter, title page, blind manuscript (including a blind title page, abstract, manuscript text, references, and figure legends), tables, and figures. Revised manuscripts should also be accompanied by responses to reviewers’ comments.

Title page. In addition to an expressive title, the author (authors) should give their full names and affiliation with full address and e-mail. The title should be concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

Author names and affiliations: Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Manuscript. The manuscript file must include a blinded title page, containing only the manuscript title, abstract and keywords. Abstract and keywords: All manuscripts must include a concise and factual abstract and 3-5 keywords or brief phrases. The abstract must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in fewer than 150 words.

Abstract. An abstract should contain information about: (1) the purpose, possibly with some predictions, (2) info about participants, (3) main methods, (4) major results, (5) some sort of conclusion with implications and/or application. The abstract should be clear and concise, as it often is the only part of the paper people will read. Note that using active verbs is preferable to nominalization and passive voice.

Introduction. Ensure that your introduction is clear from the beginning what the paper is going to be about. As Studia Psychologica focuses on cognitive and emotional processes, which is a relatively wide field, do not assume that every reader will be familiar with the technical details of your specific field. The paper should be interesting and readable for the wider public. In your review of relevant previous works, you should include seminal papers from the field, not only local papers of your colleagues, which are not accessible to an international audience (unpublished students´ theses, local conferences, etc.). In your introduction you should stress how the current report differs from the earlier reports and how hypotheses and research design relate to one another. Write the Introduction with focus on what is not known, do not just list all relevant research without any pointing to the knowledge gap or how your work fits in the picture.

Methods. Description of a sample should include eligibility and exclusion criteria, major demographic characteristics, sampling procedures. You should comment on sample size, power, precision. Please note that Studia Psychologica encourages its authors to share their materials, research protocols, codes and raw data either with submission or through osf.io to promote practices of Open Science.

Results. Results should be presented concisely and according to APA standards. Include confidence intervals or effect sizes, where appropriate. Distinguish between planned and post hoc analyses. Make sure that all titles of tables and graphs are informative enough and are comprehensible without referring to the text. You can upload your dataset along with the submission to allow reviewers to evaluate your work more thoroughly.

Discussion. Discussion should contain (1) statement of support or non-support for all original hypotheses (distinguished by primary and secondary hypotheses & post hoc explanations); (2) similarities and differences between results and work of others, (3) interpretation of the results, taking into account limits of the study, (4) generalizability (external validity) of the findings; (5) discussion of implications for future research, program, or policy. Comment on any limits of your research design, but do not end your manuscript with the limitations. You want to conclude with strong take-away message.

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Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. https://journals.savba.sk/index.php/studiapsychologica/login