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GPIR Special Issue: Health Disparities |
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| Posted by: | Jeff Stone |
| Title/Position: | Professor of Psychology |
| School/Organization: | University of Arizona |
| Sent to listserv of: | SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | October 28th, 2014 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
"How groups influence, maintain, and overcome health disparities"
Guest Editors: Jeff Stone & Virginia Kwan
Recent years has witnessed an explosion of social psychological research on health disparities. This special issue is intended to highlight this momentum and provide a forum to convey theoretical, methodological and empirical advances. Priority will be given to submissions with an explicit focus on health disparities, including related concepts such as minority health and research addressing health equity. We welcome research articles based on diverse theoretical perspectives and from a wide range of empirical approaches, including research with experimental or quasi-experimental designs, studies conducted in laboratory or non-laboratory settings, and contributions offering novel theoretical frameworks.
Health disparities refers to differences in health outcomes, such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardio-vascular disease, and HIV status, and behaviors such as diet, physical activity, relaxation, smoking, drugs, alcohol, sun behavior, and risky sex behavior. We are especially interested in papers that address health disparities associated with classically studied stigmatized identities related to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, obesity, and age, but papers that focus on other groups are also welcome.
The focus on groups includes small group dynamics, large scale social categories (e.g. ethnic groups) and relations between groups and social categories as they are located in society (e.g., power, status, resource differences, social/educational disadvantage). Influence relates very broadly to creating, maintaining, or overcoming disparities through persuasion, prescriptive/descriptive norms, leadership, conformity, stereotype-related processes, role modeling, or communication. By maintain, we are referring broadly to the difficulties that groups have reducing disparities, due to factors related to culture, SES, health literacy, stereotypes and stereotype threat, prejudice and discrimination; and by overcome, we refer broadly to evidence that groups (e.g., doctors, minority patients) have made changes that reduce the disparities that either they or another group face.
Manuscripts (typically 5000-8000 words including references) should be prepared in accordance with APA publication guidelines as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).
Articles for this special issue should be submitted no later than May 1, 2015. Manuscripts should be submitted using the regular GPIR online system, specifying that the submission be for the special issue on Health Disparities. The submission website is: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpir
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