Affective Science - Call for Papers: The Future of Affective Science
Editors: Michelle (Lani) Shiota (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA), Linda Camras (DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA), Ralph Adolphs (Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA)
Theme of the Special Issue: In this first special issue overseen by the incoming editorial team, we aim to showcase the state-of-the-art in affective science, asking what the future of our field might hold. Articles will highlight innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, synthesizing current knowledge and illustrating promising new directions for research. We now solicit proposals for both review and empirical papers suited to this special issue. “Perspectives” type review articles clearly addressing and/or illustrating future directions for the field are likely to be competitive; as are empirical papers (including meta-analyses) exemplifying novel approaches in affective science, in terms of questions asked and/or methods used, as well as reflecting strong methodological rigor and use of representative samples.
Example topics of interest include (but are by no means limited to):
- Dynamics of affect and emotion
- Socialization and cultural shaping of emotion (e.g., experience, concepts, expression)
- Emotional expression and recognition “in the wild”
- Affective/emotional processes in interpersonal contexts
- Roles of affect/emotion in behavior change
- Mechanisms linking affect/emotion with physical and mental health
- Cross-species studies of emotion mechanisms
- Modeling affect and emotion, including computational modeling, AI, and robotics
Proposals for full-length empirical articles, empirical brief reports, and 2500-word review articles, all conforming to the author instructions found here (this opens in a new tab), are welcome. Proposals for methodology articles with a limit of 2500 words in main text and footnotes will be considered as well. Please note, we expect that empirical proposals will reflect data that have already been collected and analyzed, rather than studies that are in progress at the time of proposal submission.
Preregistration of empirical studies is highly encouraged, but not required. Affective Science has adopted Level II Transparency and Openness Promotions guidelines for published studies, see https://www.cos.io/initiatives/top-guidelines (this opens in a new tab) for details.
Supplemental materials/results may be submitted with the article and will be part of the review process. We will not publish supplemental material that is un-reviewed (SOM-U). This collection is curated by the Editors in Chief from articles that also appear in the journal's issues. The journal’s standard peer review policy applies here. If an article was also included in a special issue of the journal, please see the instruction for authors (this opens in a new tab) for the special issue peer review policy.
Proposals are due by September 15, 2022. Authors who are invited to submit a full article will be notified by approximately October 17, 2022. Full manuscripts will be due January 15, 2023, with initial reviews anticipated in March 2023, and publication of the special issue in September 2023.
Proposals must be a maximum of one single-spaced page. All proposals must contain a clear statement of the research question/issue at stake and the gap in knowledge addressed; as well as a paragraph explaining how the article will illustrate an innovative, forward-thinking approach for affective science. Empirical proposals must also contain a summary of methods (sample description with demographics and sampling approach, procedures, measures); and summary of results in both statistical and conceptual form. Proposals and questions can be submitted by email to radolphs@caltech.edu.