Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

Aims & Scope

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology (CRESP) is a new primary research, gold open access journal from Elsevier.

CRESP publishes original papers and short communications resulting from research in ecological and social approaches to human behavior.

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology aims to bridge ecological and social approaches to human behavior.

It integrates ecological and social psychology and focuses on broad topics such as cooperation and conflict, culture, communication, coordination, as well as the processes that might guide these behaviors, such as emotion, motivation cognition, or neuroscientific processes.

Ecological psychology has slightly different meanings, but CRESP adopts a broad approach.

It focuses on the relation between the individual and the natural or human-made environment.

Key themes center on how climate, the presence of natural resources, as well as natural and human stressors (pathogens, disasters, density, conflict, migration, poverty), may affect cognition, emotion, and behavior of humans (and other animals).

Social psychology focuses on the relationship between the individual and the social environment.

Key themes center on how other people influence emotion, cognition, beliefs, coordination, communication, power, and cooperation.

And finally, the interplay of ecological and social psychology focuses on the relationship between social interaction and culture with key aspects of the ecological and societal environment, including broad societal variables such as those shaped by nature (e.g., climate), economics (e.g., wealth), political science (e.g., conflict and governance), or communication (e.g., media).

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Psychology and Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 2,500.00 USD. Learn more.

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