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This Research Topic is part of the Insights in Psychology series.
Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges. Climate change, global migration, increasing social injustice, new societal developments, technical innovations, and job transformations urgently call for our answers, if we want to be actors rather than objects of change. This Research Topic aims to identify social and personality variables and their underlying processes that contribute to efficiently coping with current challenges on one hand or that decrease the likelihood of successfully coping on the other hand. The target is to improve our theoretical and practical understanding of the individual and societal transformations we need to create and of the obstacles we need to overcome. We are looking for contributions that explore the within and between person dynamics that may foster successful change or impede successful adaptation. This includes but is not limited to cognitive, affective, motivational, and relational variables. We are looking from a procedural perspective and are interested in interventions that elicit trait and behavior change, and in assessment procedures that mirror these changes objectively. We also refer to the role of context, culture and values that enable both long and short term changes. This Research Topic bridges different perspectives from social and personality psychology and aims to raise our awareness of the potentials in both individuals and societies to actively contribute to a world we all want to live in.
This editorial initiative of particular relevance, led by Gerald Matthews, Specialty Chief Editor of the section Personality and Social Psychology is focused on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances and future perspectives in this field. Also, high-quality original research manuscripts on novel concepts, problems and approaches are welcomed. This Research Topic solicits brief, forward-looking contributions from the editorial board members that describe the state of the art, outlining recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest challenges in the sub-disciplines, and how to address those challenges. This article collection will inspire, inform, and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field. Please note that submissions to this collection are by invitation only. Please inform the Editorial Office when you wish to submit a manuscript.
Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges. Climate change, global migration, increasing social injustice, new societal developments, technical innovations, and job transformations urgently call for our answers, if we want to be actors rather than objects of change. This Research Topic aims to identify social and personality variables and their underlying processes that contribute to efficiently coping with current challenges on one hand or that decrease the likelihood of successfully coping on the other hand. The target is to improve our theoretical and practical understanding of the individual and societal transformations we need to create and of the obstacles we need to overcome. We are looking for contributions that explore the within and between person dynamics that may foster successful change or impede successful adaptation. This includes but is not limited to cognitive, affective, motivational, and relational variables. We are looking from a procedural perspective and are interested in interventions that elicit trait and behavior change, and in assessment procedures that mirror these changes objectively. We also refer to the role of context, culture and values that enable both long and short term changes. This Research Topic bridges different perspectives from social and personality psychology and aims to raise our awareness of the potentials in both individuals and societies to actively contribute to a world we all want to live in.
This editorial initiative of particular relevance, led by Gerald Matthews, Specialty Chief Editor of the section Personality and Social Psychology is focused on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances and future perspectives in this field. Also, high-quality original research manuscripts on novel concepts, problems and approaches are welcomed. This Research Topic solicits brief, forward-looking contributions from the editorial board members that describe the state of the art, outlining recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest challenges in the sub-disciplines, and how to address those challenges. This article collection will inspire, inform, and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field. Please note that submissions to this collection are by invitation only. Please inform the Editorial Office when you wish to submit a manuscript.
Keywords: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology
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