“Advances in Metamemory Research”

Metamemory refers to people’s knowledge about learning and memory processes in general and to the assessment (monitoring) and regulation (control) of these processes as they occur. In the past decades, metamemory has been empirically investigated by researchers from various disciplines including cognitive psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience, among others. This research has considerably advanced our understanding of the validity, effectiveness, basis, and consequences of metamemory.

In this call for papers, we reach out to researchers who study metamemory, to submit a manuscript to the Zeitschrift für Psychologie to further extend – or to discuss potential gaps in – our knowledge about metamemory. We welcome work from all psychological topic areas. Especially encouraged are submissions related to contemporary issues in metamemory research such as, for instance, contributions of fluency and beliefs to metamemory judgments, reactivity of metamemory judgments, or the relationship between metamemory and effective learning strategies. Submissions can consist of an original research article, a review article, a short research note (“Research Spotlight”), or an opinion article. Expert peer reviewers will judge all submissions on relevance to the topic, originality, and scientific rigor.

How to Submit

There is a two-stage submissions process. Initially, interested authors are requested to submit only abstracts of their proposed papers. Authors of the selected abstracts will then be invited to submit full papers. All papers will undergo blind peer review.

Interested authors should submit a letter of intent including: (1) a working title for the manuscript, (2) names, affiliations, and contact information for all authors, and (3) an abstract of no more than 500 words detailing the content of the proposed manuscript to the guest editors Monika Undorf (undorf@uni-mannheim.de) or Vered Halamish (vered.halamish@biu.ac.il).

The journal seeks to maintain a short turnaround time, with the final version of the accepted papers being due by May 15, 2020. The topical issue is scheduled as issue 4 (2020).

For additional information, please contact the guest editors.

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

About the Journal

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