Aims and Scopes

Advances in Cognitive Psychology is an open access journal devoted primarily to the scientific study of perception, language processing, attention, memory, and cognition. The journal's broad focus encompasses the behavioral, cognitive, and brain sciences. ACP publishes empirical studies, theoretical papers, and critical reviews. The journal occasionally offers reviewers the possibility to write an opinion letter on a reviewed paper, and regularly publishes special issues on topics of widespread interest. The language of the journal is English. Currently ACP is indexed by major abstracting services including Scopus, MedLine, PsychINFO, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Covered research areas include:

• How cognitive systems shape and influence human attitudes, behaviors, and belief systems.
• Mechanisms underlying social cognition, decision-making, moral reasoning, and the formation and change of attitudes and beliefs over time.
• The cognitive and emotional drivers of human beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
• The interaction between attitudes and belief systems in shaping social and individual actions.
• The influence of evolutionary, cultural, and developmental contexts on belief structures and behaviors.
• Novel theoretical frameworks or empirical investigations addressing behavioral consistency, moral judgments, and attitudinal biases.

• The perceptual, attentional and memory aspect of cognition.
• Social cognition and language processing in behavior.
• The psychophysiological, and neuropsychological perspectives of cognition.
• Also covered within this scope is computer- and modeling-based science.

• Individual differences (i.e., people’s characteristics),
• Dynamic processes underlying personality (i.e., people in situations),
• Characteristic adaptations acquired through interaction with environment (i.e., people in context),
• and how to effectively and rigorously measure personality traits, states, and adaptations (i.e.,  assessment).

Open access license

ACP applies the creative common license CC-BY-NC-ND (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) to published articles. Under this Open Access license, authors agree that anyone can copy and distribute the article for free as long as appropriate credit is given and the article is not modified and not used for commercial purposes.

Article processing costs

In the case of acceptance of a submitted manuscript the authors will be charged with the article processing costs. These costs depend on the length of the manuscript, and usually amount to 800 Euros. If one of the authors is actively involved in the journal (e.g., as an editor), then these costs will be waived.