Scope
The journal covers individual differences, broadly conceived, with articles on social psychology, processes, personality, intelligence, specific facets of human nature such as creativity, and aggression as well as clinical, economic and HR applications. Articles often use techniques such as structural equation modeling and psychometric analysis of scales, or behavior genetic and evolutionary psychology approaches.
The journal has published some of the highest impact papers in personality and social psychology, including major measurement instruments, for instance the original description of the revised version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, a paper which has been cited over 1600 times, as well as a paper proposing the third revision of the NEO PI-R NEO five-factor model scales, theoretically important papers on the structure of personality, and substantive contributions to the topic of impulse control and psychopathy.
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