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Call for Submission: Social Cognition of Disasters |
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| Posted by: | Virginia S.Y. Kwan |
| Title/Position: | Associate Professor |
| School/Organization: | Arizona State University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | June 7th, 2012 |
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“The Social Cognition of Modern Disasters”
Virginia Kwan and Andrew White
Guest Editors, Social Cognition
We are seeking submissions for a Special Issue on “The Social Cognition of Modern Disasters” to appear in Social Cognition. Recent advances in medicine and technology have helped people live longer, safer lives in an ever-expanding global community. Yet, with these advances also comes a new set of challenges. Rather than facing local, perceptible threats, such as animal predators, humans must now overcome global, often unseen, challenges, such as viral pandemics, nuclear disasters, climate change, global terrorism, and financial meltdowns. Often, these modern disasters are invisible, spread rapidly, and require immediate attention.
This special issue of Social Cognition is an opportunity to assemble cutting-edge research on social cognitive processes that contribute to the evaluation of modern disasters. In doing so, we hope to highlight the unique contribution of different psychological perspectives on this topic, while also demonstrating areas of overlap and possibilities for future theoretical integration. In particular, we seek new empirical research on how people attend to, understand, and interpret these disasters.
Potential Topics/ Ideas for Contributions:
How do contextual cues influence the interpretation of information about modern disasters?
What are the causal mechanisms underlying evaluations of modern disasters?
What are the similarities and differences in how people respond to modern disasters, compared to more physically close, visible threats?
How do means of communication (e.g., in person vs. online) influence the ways in which people communicate about different types of disasters?
Do people attend to, understand, or interpret different types of modern disasters differently (e.g., viral pandemics vs. nuclear disasters)?
Here are some specific criteria relevant to producing a suitable manuscript for this special issue. To evaluate the fit of your proposed contribution to this special issue, we would like you to email us a working title and a one-page abstract that makes clear the framing and content of your manuscript by July 1st, 2012. Based on these abstracts, we can assess the fit as well as redundancy and potential opportunities to bridge between contributions. On the basis of these abstracts, we might ask some contributors to adjust their framing or proposed content in order to strengthen the collection as a whole.
Being invited to make a contribution to the issue is not a guarantee of publication; all submissions for special issues will go through an editorial process similar to a normal submission to Social Cognition.
The timeline for the submission of the first complete draft of your manuscript is Dec. 31st, 2012. Please submit your manuscripts via the online submissions portal of Social Cognition, clearly marked “Global, Modern Disasters” Special Issue, and please also inform the guest editors about your submission. Please note that no submission may exceed 25 manuscript pages (in manuscript form, double-spaced) including references, footnotes, tables and figures. For further inquiries please email Virginia Kwan at globalmoderndisasters@gmail.com
Virginia S. Y. Kwan
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1104
Email: virginia. kwan@asu.edu
Telephone: (480) 965-7598
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