Personality and Social Psychology Review is a journal published by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology is an academic society for personality and social psychologists with over 4500 members worldwide. SPSP serves as Division 8 of the American Psychological Association and publishes the journals Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and...

 (SPSP). It publishes review and meta analytic articles on subjects like social cognition, attitudes, group processes, social influence, intergroup relations, self and identity, nonverbal communication, and social psychological aspects of affect and emotion, and of language and discourse. The current editor of the journal is Galen Bodenhausen at the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

. Its 2008 Impact Factor was 8.500, ranking it first in Social Psychology.

According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, its impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 8.5 - ranking it first in the Social Psychology category. It is abstracted in many of the leading abstracting services including Pubmed

PubMed

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, and Web of Science

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