Psychological Science
Last updated ISSN 0956-7976
Psychological Science is published by SAGE Publishing in neuroscience. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Psychological Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0956-7976, 1467-9280 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,900 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 6,101 |
| Publishing since | 1947 |
| Journal website | pss.sagepub.com/ |
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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