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| Discipline | Personality psychology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1980–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | 16/year |
| 3.950 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) ·Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) ·MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Pers. Individ. Differ. |
| NLM | Pers Individ Dif |
| Indexing CODEN (alt ·alt2) ·JSTOR (alt) ·LCCN (alt) MIAR ·NLM (alt) ·Scopus ·W&L | |
| CODEN | PEIDD9 |
| ISSN | 0191-8869 |
| LCCN | 85647765 |
| OCLC no. | 04965018 |
| Links | |
Personality and Individual Differences is apeer-reviewedacademic journal published 16 times per year byElsevier. It was established in 1980 byPergamon Press and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. Theeditors-in-chief are Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik andColin Cooper. Previous editors includeDonald H. Saklofske,Philip A. Vernon,Gísli Guðjónsson andSybil B. G. Eysenck. The founding editor wasHans Jürgen Eysenck. The journal covers research about the structure ofpersonality and other forms ofindividual differences, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021impact factor of 3.951.[1]
In 1985 the journal published "A revised version of the psychoticism scale", which described a revised version of theEysenck Personality Questionnaire.[2] This paper has been cited over 1600 times.[3]
On 17 June 2020 Elsevier announced it was retracting a 2012 article byJ. Philippe Rushton andDonald Templer.[4] The article falsely claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.[5]
