Aims and scope

Discover Psychology is a fully open access journal that publishes research in behavioral sciences and related fields, including health, environment, neuroscience, business, economics, ergonomics, linguistics, and education.

Discover Psychology provides a platform for novel experimental and theoretical findings in all fields of psychology, including clinical, social, cognitive, biological, personality, sports, organizational, developmental, animal, health, and cultural psychology.

The journal particularly welcomes transdisciplinary research that looks at emerging applications of psychology in different cultures around the world. Discover Psychology is an open access journal that supports the pre-registration of studies and access to research data.

Discover Psychology will publish research that covers topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Clinical psychology: treatment, management and assessment of psychological health, occupational health, intervention, e-health, online treatment, counselling, psychotherapy, disorders.
• Developmental psychology: growth throughout the lifespan. Generational differences.
• Personality psychology: evolutionary psychology, individual differences.
• Environmental psychology:  built environment. Climate and health.  
• Educational psychology: psychological methods to enhance education. Online learning.
• Social psychology: racism. social interactions. social support. Discrimination. Family dynamics.
• Mathematical psychology: computational and theoretical studies of the mind and brain. Statistical methods. Analyses of big datasets.
• Cognitive psychology: learning. Decision making. Memory. Emotions.
• Biological psychology and neuroscience: brain, body, and mind relationship.
• Sports psychology: well-being of athletes. Motivation.
• Animal behaviour and cognition: animal models. Animal learning.
• Consumer psychology: online shopping. Green products purchasing.
• Organizational psychology: women in the workplace. Mental health of workers. Business psychology.
• Health Psychology: physical health and the mind.
• Forensic psychology: applying psychological knowledge to legal and criminal matters.
• Cultural psychology: cultural differences. psychological life of minorities and migrants.
• Cyberpsychology: cyberbullying. Online personality. Social media.

Content Types
Discover Psychology welcomes full-length Research articles as well as Brief Communications of empirical findings, Reviews, Perspectives , Comments, Case Studies, Registered Reports, and Data Notes from across the full range of disciplines concerned with both social science and biomedicine. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of psychology. For more information, please follow up with our journal publishing contact.