Asian Journal of Social Psychology (AJSP) is published by the Asian Association of Social Psychology and Wiley. The journal is ISI-listed, and is read widely throughout the world.
Asian Journal of Social Psychology publishes high-impact original research in all areas of personality and social psychology from Asia and the rest of the world. The journal is concerned with all aspects of social psychological processes, including, among others, self and identity, social cognition, attitude and behaviour, emotions, individual differences, health and well-being, social influence, communication, interpersonal behaviour, group processes, and intergroup relations. The journal welcomes manuscripts addressing these processes, regardless of whether a cultural focus and/or Asian emphasis is present. Articles should be explanatory for quantitative studies and interpretive for qualitative studies rather than merely descriptive and must significantly advance current social psychological theories. The journal also welcomes systematic reviews and meta-analyses, interdisciplinary studies, methodological innovations, and research in applied psychology with social psychological significance. Manuscripts that report only cross-sectional data and/or rely solely on self-reports may be considered if they are part of multiple studies, make research breakthrough, or propose novel theories. The journal is committed to advancing robust, reproducible, and open science to drive real impact.
Members of AASP can access the full content of the journalby entering their member login on the AASP website and then clicking through to journal content here.
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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is devoted to advancing psychological science by providing an international platform for timely dissemination of important research ideas and findings. Although the title of the journal mentions the Pacific Rim, it aims also to go beyond this regional focus, and publish high quality articles that address issues that challenge contemporary societies. The journal seeks to foster mutual capacity-building among the Pacific Rim regions in the research domain, and also to engage with North American and European perspectives. It is a general-interest journal that publishes articles demonstrating scientific excellence across the entire spectrum of psychological science. The journal publishes in fields including cognitive, social, developmental, educational, industrial, organizational, and health psychology, as well as cognitive neuroscience, and other related topics. The journal welcomes submissions, including empirical research articles, short reports, reviews, meta-analysis, replication and commentary, from any part of the world.
The AJSP/AASP ReviewersTraining Workshop was successfully held on Nov 7, 2024 with the help of Drs. Vivian Lun, Albert Lee, our two associate editors, and Dr. Kim-Pong Tam, our former editor-in-chief. We are sharing the recording of the lecture part of this workshop.
Please feel free to share it with your students and colleagues.
AJSP Editors Podcast
Here you can find the archive of the AJSP Editors Podcast. This podcast series (2021-2024) introduced papers appearing in the journal and delivered insights regarding the conduct and publication of social psychological research to the global community.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the AJSP Editor Podcast! In the first half of this episode, among the many interesting papers published in the March 2021 issue of the journal, we selected the one about power, status, and selfishness, written by Jin et al., and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very inspiring conversation on the COVID-19 Pandemic with our special guest Sylvia Chen, President-Elect of the Asian Association of Social Psychology. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the second episode! Among the papers published in the June 2021 issue of the journal, we selected the one about proverbs and values among Chinese students, written by Weng et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very stimulating conversation on the social psychology of climate change with our special guest Susan Clayton. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the third episode of the AJSP Editors podcast! This time, we dedicated our Editors’ Pick section to the special issue titled “Collective Remembering of Living Historical Memories” just published in the September (2021) issue of the journal. We had the honour to discuss this special issue in great depth with one of its editors, Professor James Liu. After that, we had a thought-provoking conversation on cross-cultural research with our special guest Professor Taciano Milfont. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 4th episode of the AJSP Editors podcast! Among the papers published in the December 2021 issue, we selected the one about competence and warmth in person perception, written by Chen and Guo, as our Editors’ Pick and discussed it. After that, we had a conversation about the “peer review” process. We offered advice to authors as to how to prepare a manuscript, how to cope with rejection, and how to respond to reviewers’ comments for revision and resubmission. We also identified some good practices that reviewers should follow. This conversation is particularly useful for students and early-career researchers. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 5th episode! Among the papers published in the March 2022 issue of the journal, we selected the one about organisational citizenship behavior, written by Kao et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very exciting conversation on the psychology of economic inequality and social class with our special guests Hongfei Du and Ronnel King. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 6th episode! Among the papers published in the June 2022 issue of the journal, we selected a pair of articles about social motives, both led by Emiko S. Kashima, as our Editors’ Pick and discussed their strengths and significance. After that, we had a very inspiring conversation about the psychology of conspiracy theories with our special guests Ying-yi Hong and Hoi-Wing Chan. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the combined 7th and 8th episode, which is a special episode for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of AJSP! We dedicated the whole episode to “culture,” which has been the most widely researched topic among AJSP publications. In the Editors’ Pick section, we illustrated the strong presence of culture-related research in our journal by discussing several articles in the September issue and the December issue each. After that, we had two separate stimulating conversations with our special guests, first with Takeshi Hamamura about cultural change, and then with Takahiko Masuda about culture and cognition. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 9th episode! Among the papers published in the March 2023 issue of the journal, we selected the one about violence against doctors, written by Yang et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very inspiring conversation about conducting and publishing qualitative research with our special guest Wendy Li. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 10th episode! Among the papers published in the June 2023 issue of the journal, we selected the one about socioeconomic status and system justification, written by Valdes et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very meaningful (and nostalgic!) conversation about attending academic conferences with our special guest Emma Buchtel. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 11th episode! Among the papers published in the September 2023 issue of the journal, we selected the one about perceived celebrity support, written by Shabahang et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. After that, we had a very useful conversation with our special guest Lucy Xiaowan Lin about publishing research on management and organizational behavior in social psychological journals. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Welcome to the 12nd episode! Among the papers published in the December 2023 issue of the journal, we selected the one on worldviews about change, written by Bain et al., as our Editors’ Pick and discussed its strengths and significance. Following that, we engaged in a reflective discussion regarding the journal’s progress over the past three years, as well as our visions for its future. Bonus: We also had the privilege of acquainting the new editorial team and having in a brief conversation with them.
Welcome to the 13th episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Yu Niiya, the new editor-in-chief who took over the position from Kevin in January! Among the papers published in the March 2024 issue of the journal, we selected the paper on communication skills and friendship satisfaction, authored by Ken Fujiwara and Kosuke Takemura. This episode is shorter than usual as it will only be the Editors’ Pick. I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Ken Fujiwara about their paper and some behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Welcome to the 14th episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Yu Niiya, editor-in-chief of AJSP!
This episode focuses on the Special Topic Discussion. I had the pleasure to ask our Associate Editor, Dr. Vivian Lun, about the nuts and bolts of scale translations and the importance of scale validations in cross-cultural research. Scale translation and validation require more than just learning the steps. Vivian says it’s like learning how to dance!
Here below are some recommended references for scale translation and equivalence.
Boer, D., Hanke, K., & He, J. (2018). On detecting systematic measurement error in cross-cultural research: A review and critical reflection on equivalence and invariance tests. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(5), 713–734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117749042
Fischer, R., & Karl, J. A. (2019). A primer to (cross-cultural) multi-group invariance testing possibilities in R. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1507. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01507
The following book includes different chapters on the actual application of different techniques in cross-cultural research:
Matsumoto, D., & van de Vijver, F. J. R. (Eds.). (2010). Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Welcome to the 15th episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Wendy Li, co-editor-in-chief of AJSP!
Among the papers published in the June 2024 issue of the journal, we selected the paper on gender differences in power and achievement values, authored by Dr. Gabriele Prati from the Department of Psychology at Alma Mater Studiorum Universita di Bologna and Serena Stefani, a third year Ph.D. student at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento. Serena shared her experience writing this paper for AJSP and using the data from the World Value Survey for her research, and the skills she acquired from conducting and writing this research. The paper is available as Open Access, so please make sure you read it!
Welcome to the 16th episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Lucy Lin, co-editor-in-chief of AJSP!
In this episode, we delved into an excellent paper from the September 2024 issue of AJSP titled, “She wants the best: Maximizing tendency, work-to-family enrichment and female employee adaptivity.” This paper was authored by Prof. Huiyuan Jia from the Capital University of Economics and Business in China and Prof. Mushi Li, from Peking University, China. It discusses the complex balance women strike between family and work responsibilities, highlighting the challenges and successes they experience in today’s society. Prof. Jia shared her insights into the research topics. The paper is available as Open Access, so please make sure you read it!
Enjoy our Editors’ Pick!
Welcome to the 17th episode of the AJSP Editors Podcast, brought to you by Yu Niiya, editor-in-chief of AJSP!
In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Angela Leung, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to discuss how we could better understand and promote global consciousness, a key concept that Dr. James Liu advocated as necessary for humanity’s future. This podcast nicely complements Dr. Liu’s last paper that will appear in the December issue of AJSP and the special issue on global consciousness in memory of Dr. Liu. Angela suggests several realistic ways we can promote global consciousness in our own research. Enjoy listening and stay tuned!
Here below are some recommended references that are discussed in this episode.
Chen, S. X., Lam, B. C. P., Hui, B. P. H., Ng, J. C. K., Mak, W. W. S., Guan, Y., Buchtel, E. E., Tang, W. C. S., & Lau, V. C. Y. (2016). Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(2), 302–331. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039647
Leung, A. K.-y., Koh, K., & K-P. Tam. (2015). Being environmentally responsible: Cosmopolitan orientation predicts environmental consciousness. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 43, 79-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.05.011
McFarland, S., Webb, M., & Brown, D. (2012). All humanity is my ingroup: A measure and studies of identification with all humanity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(5), 830–853. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028724
