Call for Papers: “Consumer Behavior and Economic Decisions”

Consumer behavior and economic decisions are an applied field of research informed by several disciplines, for example, psychology, economics, marketing, and also by several subdisciplines in psychology, for example, general, social, or economic psychology. The focus on decisions provides a framework to integrate these perspectives. Decision research can provide several promising approaches for the understanding of consumer behavior, for example, by distinguishing between impulsive and extensive decisions or between automatic, affective, and cognitive routes to decisions.

This special issue invites submissions of empirical and theoretical papers on consumer behavior and economic decisions, with a particular focus on decision processes. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight recent research and innovative approaches. Papers that focus on the following topics are particularly welcome:

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  spending decisions
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  saving decisions
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  credit use decisions
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  insurance and pension plan decisions
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  investment decisions (stocks and bonds)
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  money management decisions.

There is a two-stage submission process. Initially, authors are requested to submit only abstracts of their proposed papers. All proposals will be subject to editorial review. Authors requested to submit full papers should then do so. All papers will undergo full peer review.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2010.

Deadline for submission of full papers is August 15, 2010.

The journal seeks to maintain a short turnaround time, with the final version of the accepted papers being due by January 15, 2011. The topical issue will be published as issue 4 (2011).

The Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of PsycholDogy was founded in 1890 and is the second oldest psychology journal in the world. One of the founding Editors was Hermann Ebbinghaus. Since 2007, it has been published in English and has been devoted to publishing topical issues that provide state-of-the-art reviews of current research in psychology.

Guidelines for article preparation:

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  only English-language submissions can be considered;
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  contributions must be original (not published previously or currently under review for publication elsewhere);
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  regular articles should not exceed 45,000 characters and spaces in length, including references, figures, and tables (allowances for figures and tables should be deducted on the basis of size – ~ 1,250 characters for a quarter-page figure/table);
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  other submission formats (research summaries, opinion pieces, etc.) may be considered, please contact the Editors for details;
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  reference citations in the text and in the reference list should be in accordance with the principles set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) – see also any recent issue of the journal;
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  submissions should be typeset in a standard font such as Times/Times New Roman 12 pt, with a margin of 3 cm;
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  illustrations and tables must be submitted on a separate page.

For detailed author guidelines, please see the journal’s website at http://www.hogrefe.com/journals/zfp/.