Personality Project: Journals

Journals that publish theory and research articles about personality

• New Research
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Journal of Research in Personality
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • European Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Personality
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Science has research articles relevant to personality and behavior genetics. Although some of the journal is available to non-members, members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have full web access to Science, as well as number of other journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Reviews and theory
  • Psychological Bulletin (reviews of recent research)
  • Psychological Review (theoretical articles)
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences (theoretical reviews -- some back issues are online)
  • Psycoloquy (online)
  • American Psychologist (reviews of broad issues)
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review
• Methodology
  • Psychometrika (methodology of psychological measurement)
  • Applied Psychological Measurement (methodology with some applications)
  • Multivariate Behavioral Research (methodology with applications)
  • Journal of Statistics Education is a refereed on-line journal concerning teaching statistics.
  • Psychological Assessement(analyses of current psychological tests)
• Other
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (personality and psychopathology)
  • Psychiatry Online
  • It is possible to search the ERIC database on line for citations and abstracts of some papers on personality and ability.
  • A very useful collection of online articles and critiques is Psycoloquy. "Psycoloquy is a refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA).
• A much more complete list of psychology journals that are available electronically is available from the Association for Psychological Science.