About the Journal
Estudos de Psicologia [Psychology Studies] (Natal) is a quarterly publication of the Psychology Post-Graduate Program of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte State (UFRN). Its issues provide unpublished Psychology works that fall into one of the following sub-areas (each one of them being under the responsibility of an Associated Editorial Office):
Psychobiology and Cognitive Psychology: Psychological Assessment; Neurosciences and Neuropsychology; Basic Psychological Processes; Evolutionary Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Physiological Psychology.
Social Psychology of Work: Psychology - Organizations and work, work and subjectivity, work clinics, work and health, psychosociology of work, unemployment, underemployment, dirty work and informal work, the production of meanings and sense at work, work and culture, affect and emotions at work, aging and work, youth and work, public policies and work, career development, social psychology of work, research methods in Psychology - Organizations and work.
Social policies themes: social assistance and the rights guarantees system (SGD - "Sistema de Garantias de Direitos"): Policies, programs, services and actions within the field of social assistance. Psychologists' training and performance within the field of social assistance. Poverty, vulnerabilities and risks associated with social assistance policy. Social movements, community organizing and struggle for social rights. Children's and adolescents' rights and their violations. Policies, programs, services and actions related to the rights guarantees system (SGD - "Sistema de Garantias de Direitos"). Social movements, community organization and struggle for the rights guarantees system (SGD - "Sistema de Garantias de Direitos"). Psychology and the rights guarantees system (SGD - "Sistema de Garantias de Direitos"). Criminal policy, public safety and the prison system.
Psychosocial aspects pertaining to interactions between people and various socio-environmental contexts: Interdisciplinary approaches to person-environment relations in rural, urban and community contexts. The interface between psychology and different spatialities, ways of living and inhabiting territories: macro-environments, built environments, small and large cities; rural and fishing and riverside ("ribeirinhos") communities; indigenous, and quilombola (Brazilian Maroons) communities. Methodologies and research and community intervention strategies.
Submissions for publication in Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) must be compatible with the ARTICLE category; submissions pertaining to reviews, experience reports, technical notes, among other categories will not be accepted.
Submitted articles may consist of:
Empirical studies: original research reports. It should include secondary analyses to test hypotheses presenting new analyses of data which were not taken into consideration or presented in previous works. These are typically organized so as to mirror the stages of the research process in the following sequence: introduction (a presentation of the research problem and the theoretical framework for conducting it, as well as of the study’s goals and its hypotheses/guiding questions), methods (a presentation of the participants/subjects, theoretical instruments, procedures and ethical procedures, types of data analysis adopted), results (a presentation of the study’s findings and the analyzes carried out, in a way that is consistent with the proposed goas, as well as the guiding hypotheses/questions), discussion (results’ interpretation, which can be given together with the results’ presentation), conclusions (a summary with the study’s main conclusions, as well as its implications and limitations).
Theoretical essays: such studies propose theoretical advances based on the current empirical literature. The authors must present the development of a theory to expand or refine theoretical constructs; they must present a new theory or analyze an existing one, by showing its weaknesses or by demonstrating the advantage of one theory over the other. Contributions of this kind analyze the internal consistency of a theory, as well as its external validity. The way sections are presented may vary according to their content (unlike empirical studies).
Critical literature reviews: such consist of a critical evaluation of already published material, which may include research syntheses or meta-analyses For meta-analyses, authors should employ quantitative procedures to statistically adjust other studies results. Authors must integrate and evaluate previously published material, considering the progress made by research, thus seeking to clarify a specific problem. Therefore, the problem should be clearly defined, and the prior information should be summarized to inform the reader about the state of the research, be it the relations, contradictions, gaps and/or inconsistencies identified within the scientific literature, and new investigation directions should also be suggested to solve the problems thus identified. The text's components may be organized in several manners, in such a way that keeps their coherence.
Manuscripts must be submitted online, exclusively on the publication's website (http://submission-pepsic.scielo.br/index.php/epsic). Any and all submissions will be received under the condition that the material has never been published, nor is it under evaluation by another journal.
Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) adpts double-blind-review for all submissions.
Copyrights
The approval of the texts implies the immediate and free assignment of publication rights for the Revista Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), which will have the exclusivity to publish them first hand. The author will, however, continue to hold the copyright for later publications. In case the articles are republished in other vehicles, it is recommended to mention their first publication in Estudos de Psicologia (Natal).
Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license, which allows one to adapt and build upon the articles for non-commercial purposes, and although new works must give them proper credit and they cannot be used for commercial purposes, in this case, users do not have to license these derivative works under the same terms and conditions.
