Announcements

STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA

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International Journal for Research and Theory in Psychological Sciences

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• Winter Hiatus Period

  2025-12-08

  Studia Psychologica announces a winter hiatus from 15 December 2025 until 19 January 2026. During this time, we will not process new submissions, but the editorial activities will continue with the manuscripts that are already submitted to our journal. While it will be possible to submit new manuscripts to our submission system during this time, these manuscripts will be processed only after the end of the hiatus period.

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• Call for Papers: Special issue “When Creativity Happens and When It Doesn’t: What Can We Learn from Non-Significant Findings”

  2025-12-01

  The Editors of Studia Psychologica are currently seeking contributions to the following monothematic issue of Studia Psychologica:

  When Creativity Happens and When It Doesn’t: What Can We Learn from Non-Significant Findings

   

  We particularly welcome manuscripts that:

  • Present empirical work—qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods—that includes both significant and non-significant results, especially when grounded in transparent research practices such as preregistration and open data
  • Highlight boundary conditions, clarifying why specific variables (e.g., mood, autonomy, group dynamics, constraints) promote creativity in some circumstances but not others
  • Compare different operationalizations of creativity, such as divergent thinking tasks, insight problems, creative self-beliefs, and real-world creative achievements
  • Offer methodological or theoretical perspectives on how null or inconsistent findings can refine, qualify, or redirect existing creativity theories
  • Demonstrate the value of negative evidence for understanding creativity in educational, organizational, or cultural contexts.

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• Online first!

  2025-11-21

  The first articles from Issue 4/2025 are already available online!

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• We joined PCI RR-friendly journals!

  2023-08-14

  NEW! Authors can now submit a Registered Report to STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA via the Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI RR). PCI RR performs peer review of Stage 1 and Stage 2 preprints and then offers authors the opportunity to publish their approved manuscript without further peer review in a range of journals (including STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA). Further guidance concerning the PCI RR platform may be found at https://rr.peercommunityin.org/

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• Professor Kováč has passed away

  2021-02-15

  We are sorry to announce that the Honorary Founder of Studia Psychologica, professor Damian Kováč has passed away on February 2, 2021, at the age of 91 years. Professor Kováč was the founder of the Bratislava school of experimental psychology and the author of many scientific publications. He also started the journal Studia Psychologica as its first Editor-in-Chief in 1956 and lead the journal until 2009. He was responsible for making Studia Psychologica a respectable international journal, with English as a publishing language and indexed in established databases. He will be greatly missed not only by his family but also in the Slovak scientific community. 

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