Nome da Revista: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Classificação: B2
Dossiê Temático: "The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats"
Prazo: 30/11/2020
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The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats
Call for Papers for a Special Issue on the interplay between individual and collective efforts
Guest editors: Eva Jonas(eva.jonas@sbg.ac.at), University of Salzburg
Johannes Klackl (johannes.klackl@sbg.ac.at), University of Salzburg
Simon Schindler (schindler@uni-kassel.de), University of Kassel
Janine Stollberg (janine.stollberg@sbg.ac.at), University of Salzburg
Immo Fritsche (immo.fritsche@uni-leipzig.de), University of Leipzig
Timeline:
Call for submissions opens 1st September 2020.
Call for initial submission closes 30th November 2020.
Although historically, humanity has always been facing challenges, the scale and collective awareness of current environmental, economic and health-related problems seem unprecedented. The challenges we are facing are as global, interconnected and complex as the modern world itself. The Internet contributes to an ever-growing awareness and constant salience of these problems to which people respond with populism, political polarization, and conspiratorial ideation. They also respond with collective efforts such as protests. These are indispensable to master complex global threats and to provide positive outcomes, such as fighting injustice through collective action, solidarity, or social change. In this special issue, our goal is to combine threat and defense research (which typically focuses on individuals) and collective action research (which typically focuses on collectives) to better understand the impact of and responses to global threats. Threat and defense research has revealed that threat salience can frustrate personal motives for certainty, control, belonging or meaning, and promote defensive tendencies at the individual level. Collective action research has emphasized the role of collective rather than individual motive frustration for social change. The question we are asking is how these individual and collective perspectives relate to each other, and how a better understanding of this relationship can help solve global problems.
This call is addressed to investigators whose research is focused on individual and collective efforts. The goal of this special issue is to provide the broad readership of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology with up-to-date knowledge of the relationship between individual and collective efforts to deal with global threats. We welcome reviews and original research articles covering topics including but not limited to:
- Global problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic, destruction of the environment (e.g., climate change), social injustice, and refugee crises.Individual-level responses to global problems (that may relate to collective effort), for example:
- Individual coping (e.g., self-distraction, active coping, denial, substance use, behavioral disengagement, positive reframing, humor, acceptance, creative confrontation, religion, self-blame, worldview defense, conspiratorial ideation)Emotional effects (e.g., fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, emotion regulation)Motivational (e.g., approach and avoidance motivation), need-based and cognitive (e.g., risk perception, consensus) effectsBehavioral (e.g., helping, donating, voting, consuming) effects.
- Collective efforts to deal with global problems, including collective action and solidarity, for example:
- Collective behaviors (e.g., protesting, activism)
- Group identification, social norms, intergroup conflict
- Game theory, social network analysis
- National and transnational social movements such as Black lives matter, LBGT or Fridays for future.
To submit your paper to the special issue, go to https://www.editorialmanager.com/jesp/default.aspx and select the article type as “SI: Threats to me and us”
Submissions must comply with the general scientific guidelines provided for authors submitting to Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Submissions should mainly focus on experimental results. Non-experimental results will only be accepted if they are methodologically distinguished in some way from cross-sectional self-report studies done with a convenience sample (e.g., very large or representative samples, or longitudinal approaches). We recommend submissions to include mostly preregistered, high powered studies with open access to data and material.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process in accordance with the high standards of the journal and the specific focus of the special issue.
Note to authors:
The theoretical focus of the submissions should be on the relationship between individual and collective phenomena in the "threat and defense" context and the data should be informative with regard to that interplay. For example, a collective threat manipulation (e.g., climate change) could be paired with an individual response (e.g., artificial grammar learning). Or individual threat (say, personal uncertainty) could be coupled with a collective response (e.g., collective action). Note that it is also possible to frame threats (and defenses) either individually or collectively, and to study the effects of that framing. Submissions may also demonstrate how collective and individual phenomena "play into" each other, for example using mediation and/or moderation analyses. Note that null effect reports are also welcome when accompanied by appropriate theoretical and methodological rationale, statistical power (adequate sample size), and testing (e.g., Bayes factor analyses).
Results that are informative regarding individual-individual and collective-collective interplays are welcome as additions, but cannot stand on their own. Linking individual and collective phenomena is a requirement.
Clearly, individual and collective phenomena often cannot be clearly differentiated. Ingroup bias, for example, could be interpreted as a response that is given by and measured from a single individual, but the underlying phenomenon does involve collectives. Submissions should provide a theoretically grounded argument for why they refer to something as and individual or collective phenomenon/concept/measure/manipulation in their studies.