''Social Psychological and Personality Science'' is a

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that covers research in

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and

personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * Describing what per ...

. Its

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is Margo Monteith (

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). It was established in 2010 and is published by

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. The journal is jointly owned by four different societies: the Association for Research in Personality, European Association of Social Psychology, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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and

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2018

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is 3.605, ranking it 6 out of 63 journals in the category "Psychology, Social".

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