The European Journal of Personality (EJP) is seeking paper proposals for the 2024/25 Special Issue on “Honesty: conceptualization, assessment, prediction, and processes”, edited by Giulio Costantini, Karolina Aleksandra Scigala, and Isabel Thielmann, and invites you to submit a proposal for an empirical, methodological, or conceptual/theoretical paper that addresses this topic.
This EJP issue aims at providing a substantial contribution to understanding honesty from a personality psychological perspective. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interest:
- Conceptualization and structure of honesty. In the last two decades, honesty has become more prominent in personality psychology through its inclusion in models of basic personality structure, particularly the HEXACO model. However, the nature of honesty as a trait, a value, a virtue, or a collection of related behaviors, as well as the reasons underlying the coalescence of honesty with traits such as humility and modesty, are still objects of discussion. We welcome research fostering conceptual clarity regarding the nature of honesty and its structure.
- Assessment of honesty. Assessing honesty can pose specific challenges, particularly in situations perceived as involving high stakes. These challenges are connected, for example, to the liar paradox, potential influences of social desirability, and the fact that behavioral measures of honesty often involve deception. The special issue welcomes contributions testing the validity of extant honesty measures and proposing novel strategies for assessing honesty (e.g., as a trait, state, value, virtue, or behavior).
- Prediction of honest behavior. The special issue welcomes research studies proposing novel and creative strategies for improving the prediction of honest and dishonest behavior through personality.
- Processes involved in honesty. The reasons why some individuals behave honestly or dishonestly in certain situations are not yet fully understood. The special issue welcomes research investigating processes and dynamics by which individual differences in honesty translate into behavior and relevant life outcomes, as well as contributions investigating processes (e.g., affective, behavioral, cognitive, motivational, genetic, environmental) underlying those individual differences.
Benefits for authors
Pre-review and constructive feedback based on proposals.
Fast and professional review process of full submissions.
Increased visibility due to publication in a special issue packed with high-quality papers.
Publication in one of the most prestigious journals of the field (IF: 7.00).
Wide dissemination and media outreach activities across relevant fields.
Timeline:
Deadline for submission of proposals (via email) – end of March 2023
Feedback on the proposals and invitations for full papers – end of May 2023
Submission of full papers via the editorial system of the EJP – February 2024
Regular review and revision process – March 2024 – December 2024
Publication of the special issue – March/April 2025
How to submit
Contributions to this special issue will be considered based on proposals sent to the guest editors of this special issue. While all proposals will be internally reviewed and receive constructive feedback, full articles will be invited only for those proposals that fit well with the theme of the special issue and can make a strong contribution to the field. The invitation of a full article will be conditional upon considering the feedback from the editorial team. Full articles will go through an initial editorial screening, after which they will undergo a regular review process. All manuscripts should be prepared in line with EJP’s author guidelines, transparency and open science standards (for more information, see https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ERP). As to article formats, the special issue will consider empirical papers, non-empirical papers, and registered reports.
Proposals should be no longer than 3 pages (including references) and include:
List of authors, affiliations, and email addresses.
Description of the type of contribution (e.g., theoretical, methodological, empirical).
Outline of the content of the planned contribution (e.g., the purpose, rationale, methodology and expected results of the proposed study – as appropriate).
The relevance of the planned contribution.
If you have any questions regarding this Special Issue, please contact one of the three editors — Giulio Costantini (giulio.costantini@unimib.it), Karolina Aleksandra Scigala (karolina.scigala@psy.au.dk), and Isabel Thielmann (i.thielmann@csl.mpg.de).