Trends in Educational and Social Psychology and Issues in Applied Field Research on Educational and Social Psychology

Abstract

The purpose of this review is to provide an over view of recent research trends in educational and social psychology, as well as to develop the perspective that educational and social psychology should make social contributions. In the first half of the paper, poster presentations on educational and social psychology presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology, and papers in educational and social psychology published in The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology from July 2018 to June 2019, are reviewed. In the latter half of the paper, studies on applied field research in educational and social psychology published in The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology from July 2016 to June 2019 are reviewed. Based on the findings of these reviews, future issues in conducting applied field research in educational and social psychology are discussed in terms of multifaceted analysis and measurement, the accumulation of knowledge, and publication biases.