Journal
The European Journal of Personality is the official journal of the European Association of Personality Psychology, and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The Journal promotes the development of empirical and theoretical personality psychology within Europe and elsewhere, by reporting and reviewing original research, theoretical issues, methodological advances and current experience.
It is intended that the journal reflects all areas of current personality psychology.
The Journal emphasizes (1) human individuality as manifested in cognitive processes, emotional and motivational functioning, and their physiological and genetic underpinnings, and personal ways of interacting with the environment, (2) individual differences in personality structure and dynamics, (3) studies of intelligence and interindividual differences in cognitive functioning, and (4) development of personality differences as revealed by cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.
The journal is currently edited by Marco Perugini, University of Milan, Bicocca, Italy (period of office: 2009-2012).
Please consult the journal's homepage for aim and scope, information for authors, and recent issues.
From the Editorial for 2009
The European Journal of Personality wants to publish high quality manuscripts that deal with issues that are interesting from a personality perspective. Personality psychology is a broad and varied field. I’m not far away from the truth if I say that personality is a hub of psychology. Take most general psychological processes and mechanisms in most areas of psychology. Study them in enough depth and you will almost invariably discover that there are relatively stable individual differences in their functioning that qualify the general principle
– no matter whether it is about cognitive processes, developmental issues, problem solving, interpersonal or intimate relationships, brain regions or social processes, just to name a few. But the logic can also be reversed. Take a personality dimension. Measure it appropriately – note that self-reports are not the only measures that can be used (cf. Perugini & Banse, 2007; Uher, 2008). Use it in a well design study – note that personality studies can be correlational but also experimental (cf. Revelle, 2007) – and you will almost invariably predict some relevant cognitive processes (cf. Robinson, 2007) and behaviors -note that I am talking about actual behaviors (cf. Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007).
Like my predecessor, I would like to encourage high quality submissions from neuroscience, neuropsychological, and evolutionary approaches to personality as well as submissions with novel approaches, methods, and tackling novel issues for personality research. Of course, established and more traditional approaches (e.g., psycholexical studies) but with novel and interesting findings are also welcome. It would be uninteresting to list all potentially suitable areas and domains of personality such as longitudinal, developmental, health, organizational, social and interpersonal relationships research. As long as the work is of high quality and relevant to personality research, it can be potentially suited for the European Journal of Personality. I would like instead to discourage the submission of manuscripts that contain clinical studies with no or only marginal reference to normal personality variation and that contain evaluations of a particular personality assessment instrument of a traditional type (particularly questionnaires).
The European Journal of Personality is an international journal that provides a quality forum for personality researchers worldwide and that publishes high quality contributions. We will do everything we can to keep it that way. Next time, think about submitting your best works to the European Journal of Personality!