CFP: Special Issue on Social Media

We write to invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration in a special issue title “Psychological Advances in Social Media.” The special issue is part of a new, innovative journal titled Translational Issues in Psychological Science, co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) and American Psychological Association Graduate Students (APAGS).

As someone who has published in the area of social media research, we invite you to submit a manuscript to the third issue of this journal, due out in the middle of 2016. For this issue the Editors will consider manuscripts across a broad area of social media research with special emphasis on:

• The relation between social media use and mental and physical well-being
• The impact of individual differences on social media use
• The implications of social media for clinical research and practice
• Social media and privacy concerns
• Cognitive, social and/or developmental processes in social media use
• Social media and Internet memes

Manuscripts submitted to TPS should be co-authored by at least one psychologist in training (graduate student, postdoctoral fellow), should be written concisely for a broad audience, and focus on the practical implications of the research presented in the manuscript. For more information about the journal, including detailed instructions to authors, visit the TPS website (http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tps).

The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2015. Please feel free to forward this correspondence to interested colleagues and the psychologists in training with whom you work.

Warm wishes,

Mary Beth Kenkel, PhD
Editor-in-Chief

Rosanna Guadagno, PhD
Special Issue Editor

About the Journal:

Translational Issues in Psychological Science (TPS) is a critical issues translational journal, with each issue on a different topic representing multiple viewpoints on psychological science. Each issue of TPS concentrates on a single important, timely, and/or potentially controversial theme in translational science that is of broad interest to scientists, practitioners, and the general public. Each article covers a body of basic scientific research and concludes with an application section.

Each issue is edited by a team consisting of the Special Issue Editor, who is an expert in the topical area, and three mentored Associate Editors, who are psychologists in advanced stages of training (i.e. advanced doctoral students or post-doctoral psychologists).

TPS is also unique in the scope of readership. The journal begins with over 25,000 subscribers, consisting of APAGS and APA members, but also institutions and individuals outside of the association. Further, as it is included in PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®, the most used psychological databases, members from over 3,300 institutions−a potential 60 million viewers−have the chance to find and read each article published in TPS.