Journal of Environmental Psychology
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-environmental-psychology
Call for Papers: Special Issue: Light and Lighting Design
Guest Editors: Yvonne A. W. de Kort, Ph.D. (Technical University of Eindhoven) and Jennifer A. Veitch, Ph.D. (National Research Council of Canada)
Light allows us to see, but a growing body of knowledge shows that light also affects mood, health, and cognition, while shaping the way we experience our surroundings. Recent neurological and biological insights in light's effect on brain and physiological processes have spurred a wealth of research in those areas, but light also influences human functioning through psychological pathways. Lighting research is an interdisciplinary activity, but one that we think should attract greater attention from environmental psychologists.
Inspired by Experiencing Light 2012, an international conference on the effects of light on well-being (http://www.experiencinglight.nl/), we are currently preparing a special issue for the Journal of Environmental Psychology (JEVP) titled 'Light and Lighting Design'. The special issue will bring together a selection of excellent and original studies in the broad domain of lighting and psychology, encompassing daylight and electric lighting, and covering the relationship between light received at the eye and
* any behavioural outcome (e.g., affect, perception, cognition, motivation, performance, health);
* for both clinical and non-clinical populations, and any demographic group;
* in any setting (e.g., work, home, school, care and leisure environments).
We invite submissions of original work to be considered for publication in this special issue, and will accept both empirical reports and review papers. Naturally, we require that every manuscript be of high scientific quality, written in professional English, and bring news to the field. We also ask that authors adhere to APA style. The selection process will be based on double-blind peer review.
If you are uncertain whether your manuscript is suitable for this special issue, send us a tentative title and a short abstract by e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
Submission details:
Submissions will be accepted until March 31, 2013.
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The work must adhere to the ethical standards of the profession.
The submission website for this journal is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jevp/. Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript.
To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors must select "Special Issue: Light and Lighting Design" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.
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