The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP) is a scientific journal

Journal

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 covering Psychology

Psychology

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 published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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, and is distributed as part of dues to the membership of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Society of Experimental Social Psychology

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology is a scientific professional organization of social psychologists. SESP has over 700 members worldwide.-History:...

 (SESP). According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, its impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 2.239.

JESP publishes original empirical papers on subjects like social cognition

Social cognition

Social cognition is the encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing, in the brain, of information relating to conspecifics, or members of the same species. At one time social cognition referred specifically to an approach to social psychology in which these processes were studied according to the...

, attitudes

Attitude (psychology)

An attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for something. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event— this is often referred to as the attitude object...

, group behaviour

Group behaviour

Group behaviour in sociology refers to the situations where people interact in large or small groups. The field of group dynamics deals with small groups that may reach consensus and act in a coordinated way...

, social influence

Social influence

Social influence occurs when an individual's thoughts, feelings or actions are affected by other people. Social influence takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing...

, intergroup relations, self and identity

Self and Identity

Self and Identity is a subfield of psychology. As the name implies, it deals with topics pertaining to both self and identity. Key areas of investigation include self-concept, self-esteem, and self-control....

, nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch , by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact...

, and social psychological aspects of affect

Affect (psychology)

Affect refers to the experience of feeling or emotion. Affect is a key part of the process of an organism's interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to affect display, which is "a facial, vocal, or gestural behavior that serves as an indicator of affect" .The affective domain...

 and emotion.

Its current editor is Joel Cooper

Princeton University Department of Psychology

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External links

• Website of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology