Aims and scope
Swiss Psychology Open (SPO) is the official journal of the Swiss Psychological Society (SPS). The goal of SPS is to advance and support best practice in psychological science and teaching. SPO is a general open access journal in the field of psychology. It accepts submissions from all fields of psychology. Its intention is to serve as a forum for the scientific discussion of all areas of psychology and their applications. One of its most central concerns is the mediating function between different fields of psychology, research and applications, and in culturally different areas.
SPO publishes research articles, meta-analyses, literature reviews, methods papers, opinion papers, commentaries and registered reports. All articles are made openly available as soon as they are ready to guarantee timely communication. Authors of articles published in SPO remain the copyright holders of their work.