Mapping European social psychology: Co-word analysis of the communications at the 10th General Meeting of the EAESP

Abstract

This study aims to provide a picture of the present European research topics in Social Psychology, using the 339 papers presented at the 1993 General Meeting of the EAESP. The most frequent themes of research are analysed and the structure of the association of those themes are described in a two-factor structure. The first factor differentiates research in terms of level of analysis and the second factor contrasts types of applied research.

Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social: Publication trends in the European Journal of Social Psychology from 1971 to 2016

“…This analysis of clusters, by considering their temporal evolutions, also showed that Tajfel's legacy-the intergroup approach-is present throughout the period, thus confirming a trend identified in the past on the basis of more fragmentary evidence (Scherer, 1992;Vala et al, 1996). The renewed interest in theories of American origin is confirmed, for example, by the prominence in recent years of articles drawing on social dominance theory, terror management theory, and regulatory focus theory, whose clusters show an increasing trend and are well represented in current publications.…”

“…Later, Scherer (1992) showed that (the social-level analysis of) intergroup relations continued to be distinctive of European studies. Similarly, an analysis of papers presented at the 1993 EASP meeting showed a strong focus on intergroup processes (a social-level European perspective), as well as the presence of the social cognition perspective, initially developed in the United States, focusing on the individual level, together with an interest in certain applied social topics such as political processes (see Vala, Lima, & Caetano, 1996). Later, the EJSP's 'Americanisation' (i.e., the rise in the number of publications privileging individual-level perspectives) spurred some debate (Markov a, 2012;Schruijer, 2012).…”

Knowledge map of Latin American research on management: Trends and future advancement

“…A second group deals with the mapping of academic disciplines (Bhattacharya & Basu, 1998; Law & Whittaker, 1992; Tijssen & Vanraan, 1989), among others. A third group deals with the discovery of the intellectual structure of research lines (Assefa & Rorissa, 2013; Liu et al, 2012; Vala et al, 1996), and a fourth group addresses the detection of relevant areas within a specific subject matter (Li et al, 2009; Rokaya et al, 2008).…”