The Asian Journal of Social Psychology stimulates research and encourages academic exchanges for the advancement of social psychology in Asia. It publishes theoretical and empirical papers, as well as book reviews by Asian scholars and those interested in Asian cultures and societies.

Coverage includes all aspects of social processes such as development, cognition, personality, health, counselling, organisation and education. The journal encourages interdisciplinary integration with social sciences and humanities.

TopHighlights

Read the top 5 Asian Journal of Social Psychology articles accessed online:

• Role identities versus social identities: Masculinity, femininity, instrumentality and communality (March 2010)
  Agustin Echebarria Echabe

• Social network analysis: A methodological introduction (March 2008)
  Carter T. Butts

• Consumption experience of impulse buying in Indonesia: Emotional arousal and hedonistic considerations (March 2009)
  Astrid G. Herabadi, Bas Verplanken and Ad van Knippenberg

• Effectiveness of a moral and benevolent leader: Probing the interactions of the dimensions of paternalistic leadership (March 2009)
  Chun-Pai Niu, An-Chih Wang and Bor-Shuian Cheng

• Culture, trust, and social networks (March 2008)
  Tasuku Igarashi, Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko S. Kashima, Tomas Farsides, Uichol Kim, Fritz Strack, Lioba Werth and Masaki Yuki

Last updated 7 May 2010.

TopEndorsements

The twin forces of national development and internationalization have converged in Asia, adding impetus to the growth of the social sciences. The calibre of psychology, in particular, has reached a level where launching the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is both timely and welcome. In its pages, you will find thoughtful and informed contributions to a broader, more culturally sensitive psychology which can counter-balance the excessive reliance on Western-based knowledge. '
Michael Bond, Chinese University of Hong Kong

'The Asian Journal of Social Psychology is a critically important step forward in the development of a truly international social psychology that captures the scientifically exciting diversity of interests of different regional groupings. AJSP heralds the full and timely involvement of Asian social psychology in this enterprise. The combination of a premier Asian and international editorial board and the cultural, scientific, and economic ascendancy of Asia into the new millennium, guarantees a scientifically exciting and impactful future for AJSP. '
Michael A. Hogg, Editor, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

'The publication of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology commences a new era in psychological research. After more than 100 years of Euro-American dominance in the field, scholars from Asian countries are finally provided with a medium to present and discuss important psychological topics and methods from their own cultural point of view. The growing body within indigenous psychology, as presented in the new journal, will undoubtedly have a great impact on the present psychological theories, objectives and methods. '
Rolf Kuschel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

'The creation of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is a testimony to the vitality of the cultural and indigenous psychology movement. The editorial policies of the journal are so well-conceived that they virtually guarantee that East Asian ideas about mind, self, morality, emotion and interpersonal relationships will reach a universal audience. It is my great hope that the AJSP will foster a science of psychology committed to a pluralistic and interdisciplinary view of mental functioning. '
Richard Shweder, University of Chicago, USA

'The Western bias of most of psychology has been significantly corrected by the contributions of psychologists from the Pacific Rim, such as the members of the Editorial Board of this Journal. The new Journal promises to accelerate the correction of this bias. All cross-cultural psychologists should welcome this new Journal. '
Harry Triandis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

'The founding of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology is one of the rare events which promise to take the development of modern social psychology an important step further. This science has long been suffering from unwarranted claims to universality of what all too often are concepts and theories emerging from and bound to European and US-American culture. Expanding psychological theorising beyond the confines of Western approaches as well as an outlet where such work can be published is badly needed. I am convinced that the editors will succeed in making this journal a principal source of scholarly papers which nobody interested in modern psychology can easily neglect. '
Wolfgang Wagner, University of Linz, Austria

'There are more social psychologists in Asia than in Europe. The quality and quantity of social psychological ideas produced by Asian social psychologists are impressive. Unfortunately, however, most of those ideas have been kept in fragmented domestic 'markets. 'With the help of new Asian Association of Social Psychology and its official journal, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, we social psychologists both within and outside Asia, are now in a better position to exploit the richness of social, cultural and historical diversity of Asian social psychologists. '
Toshio Yamagishi, Hokkaido University, Japan