Includes uncorrected page proofs for article in press (*Collabra*).
Updated manuscript includes (a) network analyses of SPPS, PSPB, and PSPR as well as JPSP, (b) identification of communities using text analysis, and [as study 1] analyses of keywords structure of SPSP submissions.
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The structure of social-personality psychology includes (but is not limited
to) constructs, scholars, papers and the links among them. This project is
a case study of part of this network, the 2014 volumes of Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP). Using techniques borrowed from
contemporary bibliometrics and data science, I find (a) that the network
cannot be simply or easily parsed into discrete Aristotelian regions, but
that (b) a model which allows communities to overlap illuminates core
concepts and their relationships. I also (c) examine the sections of
the journal
and find (d) that there is no clear trend indicating that the three
sections – or the two areas of personality and social psychology – are
either converging or growing apart.