The journal of Applied Psychology Research (APR) is officially launched!

2022-08-10

Applied Psychology Research (APR), an international academic journal owned by Academic Publishing Pte. Ltd. was officially launched. The journal adopts an open access model and the articles in the first issue are free access to the readers.

The journal looks for original research in all empirical and theoretical areas of psychology. It aims to gain a deeper understanding of the mental processes of individuals, organizations, and institutions, including cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral reasons in various situations. We accept research published in all aspects of applied psychology and invite articles on themes such as:

Social Psychology
Educational Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Managerial Psychology
Economic Psychology
Environmental Psychology
Engineering Psychology
Sport Psychology
Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Giuseppe Lanza

Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Italy

Publication Frequency: Semi-annual

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This experiment examined the influences of number of co-actors and audience size on manual dexterity task performance and subjective reactions such as perceived effort and arousal. Predictions derived from social impact theory and the self-attention perspective’s other-total ratio indicated that both number of co-actors and audience size should influence responses. Undergraduate students (N = 128) responded as 1, 2, 4, or 8 group members who were observed in counterbalanced fashion by 1, 2, 4, or 8 audience members for four performance trials. The predictions of increased task performance with larger audience sizes and decreased performance as number of co-actors increased were not supported. Participants’ rated arousal was somewhat consistent with the predictions from the self-attention perspective and social impact theory. Self-reported effort was consistent with the predicted patterns, but not always significantly so. The influence of number of others is moderated by the objective-subjective nature of responses of real co-actors performing in front of live audiences.

The level of research undertaken on the academic psychological contract, and its influence on academics’ behaviour is limited. This paper seeks to consider the academic psychological contract, by reviewing its manifestation within the role and the influence on their undertaking of the role. Particularly important is academics’ interpretation of the role and what they consider important. Within this, the paper considers in-role and extra-role activities and what may be the grey areas in which time is spent. The research adopts the combined usage of phenomenology with interpretivist processes to investigate the insights of eighteen academics at nine UK University Business Schools. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data to consider the constructs’ manifestation. Key aspects of behaviour were identified as discretionary effort autonomy and managerialism, with links to academic citizenship.