Motivation and Emotion
Last updated ISSN 0146-7239
Motivation and Emotion is published by Springer Science+Business Media in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Motivation and Emotion concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Mental Health Research Topics
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0146-7239, 1573-6644 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,897 |
| Publishing since | 1975 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/11031 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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