Calls for papers

This Collection welcomes submissions focused on the study of sleep that consider factors that negatively impact sleep health, evaluate approaches to improve sleep and further the mechanistic understanding of sleep processes in health and disease.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the topic of loneliness, including what makes people lonely, how it shapes their experience, and what loneliness means for health outcomes.

This collection covers research on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic variables, non-biological traits, preferences, behaviors and environments, and how they relate to social mobility.

The Editors at Communications Psychology invite submissions that address psychological questions related to boredom. Submissions may come from developmental, social, educational, industrial/organisational, cognitive and clinical psychology as well as any field of psychology or neighbouring disciplines addressing relevant questions.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite research submissions that address the bidirectional link between emotion and language.

This joint collection welcomes submissions that advance our understanding of the mental and physical impact of working in healthcare on the health of healthcare workers.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the psychological dimensions of immigration.

This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions on the topic of technology and learning, that investigate for instance digital literacy, the promise and challenge of adaptive technology, the role and effect of digital tools, social media, and artificial intelligence in learning.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that address the contextual conditions, psychological predictors and effects that diminish or widen the gap between public advice, people’s intention to make healthy choices, and actual behaviour and health outcomes.

The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, and Communications Earth and Environment invite submissions of public health, medical, environmental, and psychological research that shed light on the predictors, mechanisms, and knock-on effects of the interaction between climate change and mental health.