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Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Edited by:
James H. Liu
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 38/50 Psychology, Social
Impact Factor: 0.714
The Asian Journal of Social Psychology stimulates research and encourages academic exchanges for the advancement of social psychology in Asia. It publishes theoretical and empirical papers, as well as book reviews by Asian scholars and those interested in Asian cultures and societies.
Coverage includes all aspects of social processes such as development, cognition, personality, health, counselling, organisation and education. The journal encourages interdisciplinary integration with social sciences and humanities.
TopNews and Announcements
Coming in 2010: exciting events in the Asian Journal of Social Psychology!
Special forum - Culture and Brain: Opportunities for and Challenges to Asian Social Psychology
Guest edited by Sik Hung Ng (伍錫洪) (Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong) and Shihui Han (韩世辉) (Department of Psychology and Functional Imaging Center, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University).
Social neuroscience has quickly become an active research area since Cacioppo's seminal 2002 paper advocating cross-fertilization between social and neuro-science. Alongside this development, a rapidly increasing literature has turned its attention to culture and the brain.
This special forum contains a mix of integrative review and original empirical papers, which capture the excitement of this emergent field.
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Special section - Psychosocial Ramifications of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Guest edited by Li Liu (刘力) and Ying-yi Hong (康螢儀)
Have the Beijing Olympics changed Chinese people's views of their own past and future, and their perceptions and relations toward other countries? In an attempt to answer this question, the papers in this special section ask a number of further questions, such as:
- Did the Olympics increase Chinese people's competitiveness towards their Asian neighbors?
- Did Chinese and Americans view the Olympics differently? What are the implications for Sino-American relations?
- What were the psychological processes underlying Beijing residents' unprecedented rate of volunteering during the Games?
- How did the Olympics affect mainland and Hong Kong historical representations and future imaginations of China? How might these affect China's globalization?
- Are there key psychological processes that underlie these diverse questions?
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TopHighlights
Read the top 5 Asian Journal of Social Psychology articles accessed online:
- Social network analysis: A methodological introduction (March 2008)
Carter T. Butts
- Effectiveness of a moral and benevolent leader: Probing the interactions of the dimensions of paternalistic leadership (March 2009)
Chun-Pai Niu, An-Chih Wang and Bor-Shuian Cheng
- Consumption experience of impulse buying in Indonesia: Emotional arousal and hedonistic considerations (March 2009)
Astrid G. Herabadi, Bas Verplanken and Ad van Knippenberg
- Culture, trust, and social networks (March 2008)
Tasuku Igarashi, Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko S. Kashima, Tomas Farsides, Uichol Kim, Fritz Strack, Lioba Werth and Masaki Yuki
- Culture and self: An empirical assessment of Markus and Kitayama's theory of independent and interdependent self-construals (December 1999)
David Matsumoto
Last updated 18 January 2010.
TopEndorsements
The twin forces of national development and internationalization have converged in Asia, adding impetus to the growth of the social sciences. The calibre of psychology, in particular, has reached a level where launching the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is both timely and welcome. In its pages, you will find thoughtful and informed contributions to a broader, more culturally sensitive psychology which can counter-balance the excessive reliance on Western-based knowledge. '
Michael Bond, Chinese University of Hong Kong
'The Asian Journal of Social Psychology is a critically important step forward in the development of a truly international social psychology that captures the scientifically exciting diversity of interests of different regional groupings. AJSP heralds the full and timely involvement of Asian social psychology in this enterprise. The combination of a premier Asian and international editorial board and the cultural, scientific, and economic ascendancy of Asia into the new millennium, guarantees a scientifically exciting and impactful future for AJSP. '
Michael A. Hogg, Editor, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
'The publication of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology commences a new era in psychological research. After more than 100 years of Euro-American dominance in the field, scholars from Asian countries are finally provided with a medium to present and discuss important psychological topics and methods from their own cultural point of view. The growing body within indigenous psychology, as presented in the new journal, will undoubtedly have a great impact on the present psychological theories, objectives and methods. '
Rolf Kuschel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
'The creation of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is a testimony to the vitality of the cultural and indigenous psychology movement. The editorial policies of the journal are so well-conceived that they virtually guarantee that East Asian ideas about mind, self, morality, emotion and interpersonal relationships will reach a universal audience. It is my great hope that the AJSP will foster a science of psychology committed to a pluralistic and interdisciplinary view of mental functioning. '
Richard Shweder, University of Chicago, USA
'The Western bias of most of psychology has been significantly corrected by the contributions of psychologists from the Pacific Rim, such as the members of the Editorial Board of this Journal. The new Journal promises to accelerate the correction of this bias. All cross-cultural psychologists should welcome this new Journal. '
Harry Triandis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
'The founding of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is one of the rare events which promise to take the development of modern social psychology an important step further. This science has long been suffering from unwarranted claims to universality of what all too often are concepts and theories emerging from and bound to European and US-American culture. Expanding psychological theorising beyond the confines of Western approaches as well as an outlet where such work can be published is badly needed. I am convinced that the editors will succeed in making this journal a principal source of scholarly papers which nobody interested in modern psychology can easily neglect. '
Wolfgang Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
'There are more social psychologists in Asia than in Europe. The quality and quantity of social psychological ideas produced by Asian social psychologists are impressive. Unfortunately, however, most of those ideas have been kept in fragmented domestic 'markets. 'With the help of new Asian Association of Social Psychology and its official journal, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, we social psychologists both within and outside Asia, are now in a better position to exploit the richness of social, cultural and historical diversity of Asian social psychologists. '
Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University, Japan
