In addition to this WWW site, the Belgian Association for Psychological Science makes information about psychological research in Belgium and elsewhere available through three different channels:

• Psychologica Belgica, the scientific, peer-reviewed, journal published quarterly by the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (available free of charge to members or by subscription)
• BFP-INFO, the newsletter to keep members abreast of current issues and events concerning Psychology in Belgium (available to members as well as to all members of the Belgian Federation of Psychologists)
• BAPS maillinglist an electronic, non-moderated mailing list, which at this point is essentially used by members to let interested parties know about seminars, conferences, and other events that require fast distribution (available to anyone by email subsrcription)

Psychologica Belgica is the flagship journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences. It appears quarterly and publishes peer-reviewed scientific contributions to all domains of psychology as well as book reviews. Contributions take the form of full-length articles or short reports. Psychologica Belgica is listed in all major indexes, including Current Contents and Psychological Abstracts.

Psychologica Belgica articles since 2004 can now be downloaded freely from the Ingenta website.

We want to express a special thank to Karl Verfaillie, the editor of Psychologica Belgica between 2006-2009, for all the work he has done for the Journal over the past years. We are also grateful to Manuela Baretto, Johnny Fontaine and Mieke Verfaellie, resigning members of the editorial board, for their dedicated service and contributions to Psychologica Belgica.

Editorial board

Editor in chief since 2010: Etienne Quertemont (ULg) - equertemont@ulg.ac.be

Associate editors:

• Marc Brysbaert – Universiteit Gent
  
• Barbara De Clercq – Universiteit Gent
  
• Valérie Goffaux – Maastricht and Luxemburg University
  
• Jeroen Vaes – Padova University
  
• Jean-Pierre Thibaut –  Université de Dijon
  
• Emmanuel Zech – Université Catholique de Louvain

These six associate editors have been selected in an attempt to reflect the range of disciplines in psychological science. We are convinced that this new editorial board will ensure the quality of the publication.

Author and submission information

Click here to read the author information.

You are encouraged to submit your manuscripts to Psychologica Belgica.

While the editorial policy of Psychologica Belgica is not intended to drastically change in the near future, some new trends need to be mentioned. First of all, I am pleased to announce that Psychologica Belgica is now on open access. This should greatly increase the visibility of the published papers and, as we hope, help getting a higher impact factor for Psychologica Belgica. While we will keep publishing at least one special issue each year, next issues of Psychologica Belgica will see the creation of statistical notes. As a statistical consultant at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Liege, I have often noticed that researchers frequently come with the same problems and questions. These statistical notes are intended to give a short and clear answer to these frequent questions. We hope they will be useful for the members of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science. But, of course, our main priority for the next years will be to maintain the scientific quality of the papers while speeding up the reviewing and publication process as much as possible.

A free copy of the newsletter of the Belgian Federation -- the PsychoLogos -- is sent to members four times a year. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep members in touch with each other and to give news about the Association (in the section on "Research and Teaching") and the Federation in general (which coordinates all psychological societies in Belgium). The newsletter contains all kinds of information about scientific and professional activities in psychology, more specifically:

• Editorials about current events of import to Psychological Research and Professionals in Belgium
• Information about the activities of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences and the Federation, its working groups and committees, and related (international) organizations and universities
• Special information on meetings, symposia, conferences, training programs, etc.
• Information regarding the scientific activities of members of the Association (new Ph.D.s, new books, new members, etc.)
• Summaries of current research projects at the different research centers.

The editor of the "Research and Teaching" section of the PsychoLogos is Bert Timmermans. Send your contributions by e-mail to Bert Timmermans @ vub ac be.

Special Action to help to disseminate your latest research results: Write a short description/summary of the research you have carried out recently, situating it in a relevant psychological context or with an example. This description has to be comprehensible to the lay-reader. Send this summary to Bert Timmermans @ vub ac be

Because interested journalists may want more information, please send 4 re/preprints as well to: Bert Timmermans Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculteit Psychologie en Opvoedkunde Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussel

 

Members of the Society can exchange information through an electronic mailing list called "baps". At this point, the mailing list is essentially used to let interested parties know about seminars and conferences organized by members. It can also be used for announcing job offers.

To subscribe to the BAPS mailing list, send an email to majordomo@vub.ac.be with the text Subscribe baps@listserv.vub.ac.be in the message part.

To unsubscribe from the BAPS mailing list, send an email to majordomo@vub.ac.be with the text Unsubscribe baps@listserv.vub.ac.be in the message part.

Send your messages of general interest to members of the Association by mailing them to: baps @ listserv vub ac be.

In case of problems with the mailing list, please contact Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be.