✨ Now published! ✨ Our Special Section in PHAIR is officially out. The collection emerged from the Human–Animal Relations workstream at the 2025 EASP Summer School (University of Kent) from an exceptional group of PhD researchers. Read here! phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/ph...

Can money buy happiness? Dive into our latest episode as we explore the intricate links between financial security and subjective well-being with Dr. Cicilia Larasati Rembulan of Universitas Ciputra, Indonesia . #WellBeing #FinancialSecurity

What are the attitude toward digital mental health care in Germany? Discover the answer in the article by Steubl et al., published in the latest issue of @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social  https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.15233 #DigitalHealth #MentalHealth #survey #DigitalPsychology #CPE

Are voters turning radical because of culture wars or economic fears? A recent study in JSPP finds: 🔹Economic insecurity boosts Radical Left support 🔹Cultural threats and econmic fears combined boost Radical Right support 🔹Cultural fears alone often push people to the center Read the full paper👇

⭐ Have you ever disliked something more, the easier it was to recall the terrible day you bought it? Ingendahl et al. (2025) investigated links between evaluative conditioning and ease of memory retrieval across two experiments. 🧵 1/5

The @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social podcast features another author published in Europe's Journal of Psychology; this episode explores his study on emotion regulation and attentional deployment

Today we present at #OAT25 how PsychOpen GOLD integrates with PsychArchives (disciplinary repository). From Author Accepted Manuscripts to Supplementary Materials and Green OA - two services at @zpid.bsky.social aim to create reliable and convenient workflows for psychology research

This year's #PeerReviewWeek, focusing on "Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era," comes at a perfect time: We've recently started implementing AI policies for authors & reviewers. As AI affects publishing in all kinds of ways, we want to thank all human reviewers across our journals.

We are thrilled to announce that Karolina Dyduch-Hazar has received the Solomon Asch Early Career Prize for her outstanding work, "Feeling Bad About Feeling Good? How Avengers and Observers Evaluate the Hedonic Pleasure of Taking Revenge" (co-author: Mario Gollwitzer). 🏆

Vystopia, vegan dystopia, is an existential crisis experienced by some ethical vegans who see society as morally failing. Veitch & Gregson examined the psychosocial characteristic of vystopic vegans using linguistic data from the subreddit r/Vystopia (N_posts = 14,542). #ethicalvegan #reddit

New paper! @robender.bsky.social, Deliah Wagner, and I developed a universal, context-independent Hate Crime Belief Scale in German and English. @psychopengold.bsky.social @zkfs.bsky.social #hatecrime #openaccess doi.org/10.5964/miss...

📢 New issue published: @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social 7(3) Including papers on 🔸 The Critical Nature of Psychosomatics in Clinical Practice 🔸 IBD-Specific Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 🔸 Attitudes Towards Digital Health Interventions in Germany See the full issue:

If you'd like to receive alerts about recent publications straight to your email inbox, consider subscribing to some of our journals' newsletters! 📩 🔗 Clinical Psychology in Europe: buff.ly/auxVSOF 🔗 Social Psychological Bulletin: buff.ly/oexIZEg

🟡 We are delighted to share that Social Psychological Bulletin has Impact Factor of 2.0! 🏅 Another big milestone for the once small and locally published journal - with more to come in the future. @pspspl.bsky.social @psychopengold.bsky.social

🎼 Can AI write music as well as humans? Not yet. A new study tested melodies by ChatGPT-4, Llama 3, and Qwen 2 vs. human compositions and found that music students rated human creations higher on all counts (convincing, logical, interesting, likable). #AI #MusicComposition

The first batch of PsychOpen GOLD journals has registered with the new PCI Psychology platform @psych.peercommunityin.org. JSPP, METH, PHAIR, RPiO, and @socialpsychbull.bsky.social now accept PCI-recommended preprints via fast track submission! More journals are on their way…

Can loneliness outlast a pandemic and still be linked to mental health years later? Discover the answer in the article by Hunsmann et al., published in the latest issue of @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social Article: doi.org/10.32872/cpe... #MentalHealth #Loneliness #UniversityStudents #PostCOVID #CPE

Before joining PsychOpen GOLD, @socialpsychbull.bsky.social was published in Polish as 'Psychologia Społeczna.' The complete back catalog (2006-2017) is now available in ZPID's PsychArchives repository. All content is FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

💐Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 30-jährigen Bestehen! 💐 Die @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de verbindet seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten exzellente Forschung mit gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung. Wir sind froh und stolz, Teil dieser Gemeinschaft sein zu dürfen! #jubiläum #leibniz #forschung #wissenschaft

Topics included in this issue: ➤ The “Favorite Person” in Borderline Personality Disorder ➤ Self- and Not-Self-Determined Solitude ➤ Prejudice and Discrimination Towards Tattooed People in Hiring Processes ➤ Intergenerational Gender Preferences in Romantic Partner Selection

After 13 years of successful partnership, the final issue of Interpersona published by PsychOpen GOLD has appeared! We thank the editors & authors for their dedication & wish them continued success as they embark on new opportunities under a new publisher based in Brazil, the journal's home country👏

Our journal Clinical Psychology in Europe (@clinpsycheurope.bsky.social) has received its first Impact Factor of 2.4! We are excited about the journal's success & take this opportunity to thank the Editors-in-Chief and the rest of the editorial team for the long-standing and excellent collaboration!

Awesome discussion with Editor-in-Chief of @phair-society.bsky.social, Prof. Hopwood (@chopwood.bsky.social) of @ethz.ch Listen on youtube and all major podcast platforms or on our website: smoothbrainsociety.com/2025/06/12/6... #humans #animals #psychology #podcast @psychopengold.bsky.social

Still one of our trending articles (according to monthly DOI resolutions): This tribute to Aaron T. Beck, the 'father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy,' traces CBT's development from the 1960s to today. @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social‬

Podcast recommendation: Listen to @chopwood.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of our journal "Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations", over at @smoothbrainsociety.bsky.social. Chris discusses the journal’s focus as well as his research on how we perceive and treat animals.

What are AAMs anyway? They're the final version of a research article after peer review and acceptance, but before copyediting and publisher formatting. While the final publishing can take some time, an AAM lets readers access your research immediately. Citable, and archived with its own DOI.

Want to make your research available before final publication? Once your article is accepted by one of our journals, simply download and complete the AAM (Author Accepted Manuscript) form. Your AAM is archived in PsychArchives and appears under 'Forthcoming Articles' on the journal’s website.

📢 New EJOP issue out! Topics: ➤ How authoritarian beliefs shape perceptions of politicians' psychopathy ➤ Comparing Dark Triad measures ➤ The role of feedback in learning from errors ➤ Pathways from alexithymia to internet addiction ➤ Lessons from romantic relationships for future partnerships

Check out SPB's Special Topic on "The Gendered Language (R)Evolution)"! 👇

This #WorldEnvironmentDay, we highlight an article published bei GEP exploring the psychological challenges faced by climate activists 🌍 The study identifies key issues: ⏺ handling emotions, ⏺ preventing burnout, and ⏺ creating identities & effective group dynamics. Read more:

We are thrilled to announce the release of the latest issue of Clinical Psychology in Europe! 🌟 Don't miss the opportunity to explore innovative research and the newest insights! doi.org/10.32872/cpe... @eaclipt.bsky.social @rief01.bsky.social @corneliaweise.bsky.social @psychopengold.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky, we are the PsychOpen GOLD Team! 🙋🙋‍♂️ We publish psychological research under the values of Open Science and Open Access. We aim to provide the best possible support for journal editors, authors and readers. Learn more about us: psychopen.eu/about

Our portfolio includes 15 open access journals covering a wide range of psychological topics. Free of charge for readers and authors. Have a look: psychopen.eu/journals/

In 2005, Europe's Journal of Psychology stated in its first editorial that "Whether there is a need for such a product [...] time will probably decide". Now, 20 years later, it has stood the test of time. Congratulations on two decades of OA publishing to the very first PsychOpen journal! 💝

Did you know? While some of our journals directly accept Registered Reports, @socialpsychbull.bsky.social and Biolinguistics collaborate with the PCI-RR platform. As PCI-friendly journals, they accept Registered Reports recommended by PCI-RR. Learn more: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/about

Interested in regular updates on the latest psychology research from our journals? Find a selection of recent articles on our website psychopen.eu 🌐 or subscribe to our RSS feed 📡 for your RSS reader to receive the 10 most recent publications from each journal psychopen.eu/rss-journals...

🌿 Spring Issue Reminder! Catch up on Clinical Psychology in Europe Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025) ahead of #EACLIPT2025 Topics: PTSD, grief, youth, Empower-Grief protocol & more. 📖 doi.org/10.32872/cpe... @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social #CPE #clinicalpsychology #mentalhealth #research

For our German followers 👉 Did you know we have a partnership with the German edition of In-Mind? Their goal is to help psychologists share their research in accessible, “edutaining” ways with a broader audience. 🤓 We are happy to support In-Mind by providing the editorial system infrastructure.

What are the motivators and effects of responding to the socio-ecological crisis and how do we make a change on local and global levels? A special issue by Global Environmental Psychology explores psychological and social aspects of ecological activism 🌍 #earthday

Our "oldest" journal, Yearbook of Music Psychology (est. 1984) now features our updated layout design: The improved spacing and visual hierarchy enhances readability, metadata presentation and integrates tables and figures more seamlessly into the text flow.

Research on the reproduction of social inequality often refers to Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital, which may be measured by the number of books in the household. But are we missing something by not measuring digital objects such as e-books? Balzer et al. explore this question in a new paper:

A unique feature of PsychOpen GOLD: Internal integration with the PsychArchives repository. Our production editors archive all your supplementary materials—each with its own DOI. No extra effort required from authors (plus: controlled metadata and faster publication timelines).

Are There Right-Wing Utopians? In a new JSPP paper, Fernando et al. analysed Utopianism across the political spectrum in US-American and Australian datasets collected between 2015 and 2023 and challenge the idea that utopian thinking is limited to the left.

One of the many perks of being located on the campus of @unitrier.bsky.social : Enjoying the cherry blossoms in spring! 🌸 #hanami

🕒 We are extending the deadline for submissions for our Special Topic on the Role of Physical Threat in Social Phenomena. Save the new date: March 31st! Read more about the call: spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

How can we empower individuals and nurture teams in today’s dynamic workplace? With Research for People in Organizations, a new OA journal aiming to answer these questions has joined the PsychOpen GOLD portfolio. Submit your research into #organizationalpsychology 📃 #callforpapers

PsychOpen GOLD is part of the @zpid.bsky.social , which supports the entire psychological research cycle. As a public open science institute, it provides free services, incl. PubPsych, KlarPsy, and PsychArchives—all while conducting research on science acceptance and psychological metascience.

Happy 10th birthday to the Journal of Numerical Cognition, established in 2015 by @mcls-official.bsky.social 🎂 We welcome a new diverse editorial team of experts from different disciplines and geographical regions & the new Editor in Chief @profvicsimms.bsky.social Meet them in the latest editorial

What challenges has clinical psychology faced in Greece, and what does the future hold? Dive into Katerina Flora's insightful review in @clinpsycheurope.bsky.social ! Link to the full article: doi.org/10.32872/cpe... #ClinicalPsychology #Greece #History #Psychology #Research #CPE

We've created a (really!) Quick Guide for our Handling/Associate Editors with do's and don'ts, critical steps, and troubleshooting tips for managing submissions. This at-a-glance resource helps streamline the editorial process and is now available on our FAQ page: