Abstract
Reviews of articles from social and personality psychology journals have been largely limited to subsets of publications from particular years and to a focus on descriptive qualities of articles. This paper compares the methods and measures employed in all empirical articles published in 1982 to those that appeared in 2016 from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. There has been an increase in self-report data, a decline in behavioral observations, and an increase in detailed reports of procedures and analyses. A heavy reliance on laboratory experimentation involving college students has been supplanted by online participant pools and data collection procedures. Compared to 1982, articles in 2016 were fewer in number but longer in length, included more studies per article, and had a greater number and diversity of authors. Explanations are offered for these findings along with implications for social and personality psychology.
| Original language | American English |
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| Journal | Journal of Social Psychology |
| DOIs | |
| State | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
Keywords
- Identity
- measures
- methods
- personality
- publication trends