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Impact Factor: 1.2
5-Year
Impact Factor: 1.7

Social Cognition

The Official Journal of the International Social Cognition Network

Editor: Keith Maddox, PhD
Tufts University

ISSN: 0278016X
Volume 43, 2025
Issues Per Year: 6
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Social Cognition seeks to advance understanding of the role of cognitive processes in social psychology and behavior. The journal emphasizes three broad concerns:
An excellent resource for researchers as well as students, Social Cognition features reports on self-perception, self-concept, social neuroscience, person-memory integration, social schemata, the development of social cognition, and the role of affect in memory and perception.

Editorial Board

Associate Editors
Kenneth G. DeMarree, University at Buffalo
Guy Itzchakov, University of Haifa
Heng Li, Sichuan International Studies University
Ed O’Brien, University of Chicago

Editorial Board
Henk Aarts, David M. Amodio, Emily Balcetis, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Yoav Bar-Anan, Denise R. Beike, Michael J. Bernstein, Vanessa Bohns, Charles F. Bond, Jr., Jimmy Calanchini, Donal E. Carlston, Tanya L. Chartrand, Jacqueline M. Chen, Serena Chen, Heather Claypool, Katja Corcoran, William A. Cunningham, Ruud Custers, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Roland Deutsch, Cheryl L. Dickter, Ap Dijksterhuis, John A. Edwards, Joyce Ehrlinger, Melissa J. Ferguson, Ayelet Fishbach, Gráinne Fitzsimons, Jon Freeman, Ronald S. Friedman, Lowell Gaertner, Teresa Garcia-Marques, Bertram Gawronski, Andreas Glöckner, Ernestine Gordijn, Elizabeth Haines, David L. Hamilton, Larisa Heiphetz, Sarah D. Hodges, Rob W. Holland, Kurt Hugenberg, Camille Johnson, Christoph Klauer, Anne Krendl, Benedek Kurdi, Alison Ledgerwood, Nira Liberman, Patricia W. Linville, Penelope Lockwood, Charles G. Lord, Debbie S. Ma, Anne Maass, C. Neil Macrae, Keith D. Markman, Daniel C. Molden, Benoît Monin, Leonard S. Newman, Kristina Olson, Edward Orehek, Esther Papies, Bernadette Park, Kristin Pauker, Keith Payne, Jesse Preston, Kate Ratliff, Kimberly Rios, Neal J. Roese, Nicholas Rule, Janet B. Ruscher, Abigail Scholer, Norbert Schwarz, Beate Seibt, John J. Skowronski, Rachel Smallman, Colin Smith, Charles Stangor, Stephanie Tobin, Andrew R. Todd, Alexander Todorov, Claudia Toma, David Trafimow, James S. Uleman, Christian Unkelbach, Rick B. van Baaren, Harm Veling, Roos Vonk, Dirk Wentura, Oscar Ybarra, Steven Young, Vivian Zayas

Indexed/Abstracted

ProQuest, Biological Abstracts, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Educational Research Abstracts Online, EMcare, Family Resources Database, International Bibliography of Book Reviews, International Bibliography of Periodic Literature, PsycINFO, Research Alert, SCOPUS, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch, Sociological Abstracts.
The impact factor of this journal is 1.2 and the 5-year impact factor is 1.7 [2023 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate 2024)].