User:D schutter

NETHERLANDS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

(ISSN: 1872-552x)

The Dutch academic journal “Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie en haar grensgebieden” (NJP) was founded by L. van der Horst and J. van Essen of the Free University, Amsterdam in 1933. The aim of the journal was to explore the role of psychology in science and to demonstrate that psychology is far from an independent scientific discipline. Particular the interrelations between psychology, biology and physics have always played an important role in the NJP. The NJP was among the first psychology journals to break with the traditional views of the social and behavioural sciences which at the time were dominated by phenomenologists.

During the German occupation in World War II the editorial board was forced to resign. Van Essen however remained editor-in-chief and kept publishing the NJP. The articles that were published during the Nazi regime were unmistaken pro-National Socialistic of nature and in 1945 Van Essen was arrested and charged with collaboration. The reinstated editorial board of the NJP decided to restart indexing the volumes as of 1945 and in 1995 NJP celebrated its official 50th anniversary.

In order to reach a broader readership, in 2006 the editorial board and publisher Bohn Stafleu-Van Loghum/Springer decided to change the “Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Psychologie en haar grensgebieden” into the “Netherlands Journal of Psychology”. In keeping with its roots, the Netherlands Journal of Psychology presently focuses on empirical and conceptual studies that contribute to the theoretical explanation of human behaviour and experience, including human development, social processes, psychopathology, forensic psychology and psychiatry neuroscience, psychophysiology, philosophy of mind, the computational approach, emotion, cognition, human performance, educational psychology, health, selection and assessment. It is the journal’s policy to publish about recent developments in psychology and related fields. It is also the editor's policy to publish recent national and international developments in the field of psychology, to serve the interest of psychologists, and others professionals interested in the field, on information about developments in a wide area of specialists research activities and results of empirical and theoretical work in the field of psychology. The Netherlands Journal of Psychology offers specialists the opportunity to publish their findings to a broad audience that is scientifically interested in psychology, and offers a continuous forum for intellectual discussion and transfer of knowledge and information about developments in psychology.

Netherlands Journal of Psychology

Editor-in-chief

René van Hezewijk, Open University of the Netherlands, the Netherlands

Associate Editors

Frederik Anseel, Ghent University, Belgium

Arjan Bos, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Denny Borsboom, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Maaike Cima, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Paul van Geert, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Dennis J.L.G. Schutter, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Editorial Board

O. van den Berg, University of Leuven, Belgium

N. Ellemers, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

W. Everaerd, emeritus University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

J. Feij, emeritus University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

E. de Haan, University of Amsterdam the Netherlands

J. van Heerden, Maastricht University the Netherlands

A. van der Heijden, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

W. Hofstee, emeritus Groningen University, the Netherlands

J. Hoogstraten, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

M. van den Hout, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

J. Jolles, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

A. van Knippenberg, Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands

W. Koops, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

J. Orlebeke, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

H. van Rappard, emeritus Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

W. Schaufeli, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

R. Schreuder, Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands

H.J. Stam, University of Calgary, Canada M. Verbaten, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

O. Wiegman, emeritus University of Twente, the Netherlands

H. Wilke, emeritus University of Leiden, the Netherlands

G. d’Ydewalle, University of Leuven, Belgium

Link(s): http://www.njp.bsl.nl