Guides and Tutorials: Psychology Resources: Highlighted Journals

Highlighted Journals

The journals featured below represent a small sampling of the many periodicals in our collection that support psychology and counseling courses. These journal titles are especially significant and reflect academic inquiry across multiple subfields in psychology. For each journal title listed below, detailed holdings information for full-text online access is available.

American Psychologist
The American Psychologist is the official journal of the American Psychological Association. As such, the journal contains archival documents and articles covering current issues in psychology, the science and practice of psychology, and psychology's contribution to public policy.
Cognitive Psychology
Concerned with advances in the study of attention, memory, language processing, perception, problem solving, and thinking.
Counseling Psychologist
Focuses on timely topics in such diverse areas as multiculturalism and cross-cultural competency, research methods, vocational psychology, assessment, international counseling and research, prevention and intervention, health, social justice, assessment, and training and supervision.
Developmental Psychology
Publishes articles that advance knowledge and theory about human development across the life span.
European Psychologist
The English language voice of psychology in Europe, integrates across all specializations in psychology and provides a general platform for communication and cooperation among psychologists throughout Europe and worldwide.
Experimental Psychology
The scope of the journal is defined by the experimental method, and so papers based on experiments from all areas of psychology are published. In addition to research articles, Experimental Psychology includes occasional theoretical and review articles.
Feminism & Psychology
The journal's principal aim is to foster the development of feminist theory and practice in and beyond psychology. It publishes high-quality original research, theoretical articles, and commentaries.
Group Dynamics
Publishes original empirical articles, theoretical analyses, literature reviews, and brief reports dealing with basic and applied topics in the field of group research and application.
Health Psychology
Provides a platform for traditional empirical analyses as well as more qualitative and or critically oriented approaches. It also addresses the social contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Publishes articles on basic research and theory in the broad field of abnormal behavior, its determinants, and its correlates.
Journal of Black Psychology
Presents peer-reviewed, empirical, theoretical, and methodological research on the behavior and experiences of Black and other populations from Black or Afrocentric perspectives.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (0022-006X)
This journal examines the treatment and care of diverse patient groups. Featured articles deal with the development, validity, and use of diagnostic techniques and treatments for disordered behavior.
Journal of Counseling Psychology (0022-0167)
This journal publishes empirical research in the areas of counseling activities, career development and vocational psychology, diversity and underrepresented populations in relation to counseling activities, the development of new measures to be used in counseling activities, and professional issues in counseling psychology.
Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology
Focuses on today's important cross-cultural issues, including individualism, self-enhancement, acculturation, changing family values, ethnic group comparisons, gender differences, and personality.
Journal of Family Psychology
This journal offers cutting-edge, groundbreaking, state-of-the-art, and innovative empirical research with real-world applicability in the field of family psychology.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
An interdisciplinary forum for contributions, controversies and diverse statements pertaining to humanistic psychology. It addresses personal growth, interpersonal encounters, social problems and philosophical issues.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
This journal publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
Journal of Social Psychology
Articles on experimental, empirical and field studies of groups, cultural effects, cross-national problems, language and ethnicity, cross-cultural notes and briefly reported replications and refinements.
Neuropsychology
This journal publishes primarily original, empirical research on the relation between brain and human cognitive, emotional and behavioral function.
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
An official journal for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. PSPB offers an international forum for the rapid dissemination of original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
Professional Psychology, Research and Practice
This journal publishes articles on the application of psychology, including the scientific underpinnings of the profession of psychology.
Psychoanalytic Psychology
This journal serves as a resource for original contributions that reflect and broaden the interaction between psychoanalysis and psychology.
Psychological Assessment
This journal is concerned mainly with empirical research on measurement and evaluation relevant to the broad field of clinical psychology.
Psychological Bulletin
This journal publishes evaluative and integrative research reviews and interpretations of issues in scientific psychology.
Psychological Review
This journal publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology.
Psychology and Aging
This journal publishes original articles on adult development and aging that are applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological or psychosocial.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
This journal publishes peer-reviewed original articles related to the psychological aspects of addictive behaviors.