Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Published on behalf of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Edited by:
Geoffrey Maruyama

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Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP) is an electronic journal of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). It is published in print once a year, in December. The journal is an outlet for timely and innovative psychological and related social science scholarship with implications for social action and policy.  ASAP provides a forum for publishing new work as well as discussion on alternative approaches to a variety of important and current social problems.  Encouraging timely publication of well-written, peer-reviewed work, ASAP facilitates communication between social science researchers and practitioners and policy makers, as well as with the public as a whole.

• Articles employ social science theory and research to address social issues of importance to practitioners and policy makers, and speak to issues of practice and policy.
• Articles communicate with a broad spectrum of interested individuals as well as with the social science community.
• Articles are published electronically as soon as they are accepted for publication. At the end of each year, a print version will be made available to all institutions that subscribe to the Journal of Social Issues.
• ASAP is not a thematic journal. Submissions in any content area related to the goals of SPSSI will be considered. They will be evaluated in terms of scholarly excellence as well as their relevance to social problems, social action and policy.
• ASAP has an internationally respected Editorial Board with expertise in both social science research and the application of that research to real world issues.

In addition to an online subscription to ASAP, subscribers to the journal also receive a full subscription (four issues) to Journal of Social Issues (JSI) and Social Issues and Policy Review (SIPR)!

TopNews and Announcements

New SPSSI book series!
SPSSI, in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, is pleased to announce the launch of the book series Social Issues and Interventions. To browse the books in this series, please click here. If you are interested in editing a book in this series, please visit the SPSSI website for more information. An additional book series, Contemporary Social Issues, will launch in 2009. If you are interested in authoring a book for this series, please visit the SPSSI website.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI  initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

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TopHighlights

This year as part of the current volume ASAP is pleased to feature a special "issue" applying social science research and theory to last year's hurricanes that devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. Janet Ruscher co-edited that issue. Articles from that issue include:

Institutional Discrimination, Individual Racism, and Hurricane Katrina
Kristin E. Henkel and John Dovidio, University of Connecticut, Samuel Gaertner, University of Delaware

System Justification in responding to the Poor and Displaced in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Jaime L. Napier, Anesu N. Mandisodza, Susan M. Andersen and John T. Jost, New York University

Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions
Samual R. Sommers, Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin N. Dukes Negin Toosi, and Elise J. Wang, Tufts University

A Problematic Integration Approach to Capturing the Cognitive, Cultural, and Communicative Experiences of Hurricane Katrina Volunteers
Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Melinda Villagranm, and Raymond Garza, University of Texas, San Antonio

Other articles include:

When Outcomes Prompt Criticism of Procedures: An Analysis of the Rodney King Case
Elizabeth Mullen, Northwestern University, and Linda J. Skitka, University of Illinois at Chicago