Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Interpersonal Communication | Language and communication | Social Psychology (General)
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The JLSP publishes theory driven research that thoroughly explicates the psychological mechanisms explaining how language functions in social interaction. The JLSP values well-articulated work that thoroughly deduces hypotheses and/or poses meaningful research questions. The JLSP aims to publish work with precisely detailed narratives that explain why causal connections exist among constructs. The JLSP publishes exploratory, descriptive, and pure replication work, primarily as Short Research Reports; at the same time, the Journal prioritizes full-length research reports that advance theory using sophisticated methods appropriate for the (causal, correlation, behavioral, cognitive, etc.) claims being tested.
Notwithstanding its history of publishing quantitative experimental social science, the JLSP accepts submissions employing any method or epistemology, as well as articles with pure theoretical agendas and no data. The JLSP values stimulus generalizability (especially for papers reporting a single study), as well as multi-study conceptual replications that operationally diversify efforts across studies within a single article. Multi-study articles may employ the same tool, such as a 3-experiment paper, or they can use diverse methods, such as a computational language model reported alongside a survey. Articles with methodological triangulation via diverse and/or mixed methods are effective means of theoretical advancement, particularly when authors directly discuss (in)consistencies and theoretical and operational implications across studies; and the JLSP aims to publish such efforts.
The JLSP aims to publish research on the social psychology of language use with social justice implications and practical utility whenever possible. The JLSP prioritizes work on the social psychological mechanisms of linguistically leveraged oppression, discrimination, and related processes. Publishing contextually consequential work with far reaching benefits for humanity and social change is an aim of the JLSP. Example contexts with strong social justice implications for language and social psychology and attendant fields include, but are not limited to: intimate partner abuse and violence, cyberbullying and mental health, hate graffiti, social media misinformation, elder abuse, political advertisements and polarization, charitable contributions, online dating and loneliness, sexual consent, collective action and organizing, environmental campaigns and preservation efforts, policy/law implementation, neo-pronouns, revisionist history, reproductive rights, health disclaimers and medical adherence, social and emotional support, music lyrics and well-being, and police brutality.
Regardless of the topic, the JLSP aims to publish articles that advance theory employing rigorous methods on fundamental processes of language and social psychology, such as communication, social cognition, message production and processing, power dynamics, intergroup vitality, ageing, ethnicity, bilingualism, discourse and conversation, person perception and message attitudes, digitally mediated social interaction, human-computer interaction, emotion and physiology, and gender and sexual identities.
For more on aims and scope, consult Palomares (2024), A vision for the continued success of the JLSP, Vol. 43(1), p 9-13 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X231206337).
| Nicholas A. Palomares | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Howard Giles | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| John A. Banas | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Ali H. Al-Hoorie | Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Saudi Arabia |
| Martha Augoustinos | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Natalie N. Bazarova | Cornell University, USA |
| Quinten S. Bernhold | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA |
| Megan E. Birney | Staffordshire University, UK |
| Kate G. Blackburn | University of Texas, Austin, USA |
| David E. Clementson | University of Georgia, USA |
| Brandon Van Der Heide | Michigan State University, USA |
| William A. Donohue | Michigan State University, USA |
| Marko Dragojevic | University of Kentucky, USA |
| Norah E. Dunbar | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| John R.. Edwards | St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Susan R. Fussell | Cornell University, USA |
| Jessica Gasiorek | University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA |
| Cynthia Gordon | Georgetown University, USA |
| Pascal Gygax | University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
| Jeffrey A. Hall | University of Kansas, USA |
| Mark Hamilton | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Karolina Hansen | University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Jake Harwood | University of Arizona, USA |
| Andrew C. High | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Tom Holtgraves | Ball State University, USA |
| Nicholas S. Holtzman | Southeastern Louisiana University, USA |
| Kokil Jaidka | National Singapore University, Singapore |
| Janice L. Krieger | University of Florida, USA |
| Hans J. Ladegaard | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
| Timothy R. Levine | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Wang Liao | University of Washington, USA |
| David M. Markowitz | Michigan State University, USA |
| Matthew S. McGlone | University of Texas-Austin, USA |
| Joann M. Montepare | Lasell College, USA |
| Silvia Moscatelli | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Margaret J. Pitts | University of Arizona, USA |
| Scott A. Reid | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Kim Serota | Oakland University, USA |
| Lijiang Shen | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Natasha Shrikant | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Hillary C. Shulman | Ohio State University, USA |
| Anna Stefaniak | St. Andrews University, UK |
| Robbie M. Sutton | University of Kent, UK |
| Karen Tracy | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Joseph B. Walther | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Kevin A. Whitehead | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Sally Wiggins | Linköping University, Sweden |
| Steven R. Wilson | University of South Florida, USA |
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