Editorial

Abstract

My academic career started a few years before the Revista de Psicología Social was launched, and because of my association with one of its founders, Professor J. FranciscoMorales, at that time a professor at the University of Granada, I experienced the excitement and inherent difficulties that characterize a project of this kind up close. Since then, I have been a faithful reader of the journal and have participated actively in its development and consolidation to the best of my abilities and possibilities. For this reason, when the previous editor, José Manuel Sabucedo, a good friend and outstanding social psychologist, mentioned the possibility of putting forth my name as the new editor of the journal, he knows that I barely hesitated before assenting. And so I would like to express my gratitude to him, to the previous editors (Amalio Blanco, José Miguel Fernández-Dols and Francisco Morales), to Miguel del Río from the Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje and to the publisher, Taylor & Francis, all of whom have entrusted the stewardship of this journal to me since January 2017. Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of the previous teams and the contributions from those who have viewed the Revista de Psicología Social as an appropriate place to publish their studies, the journal has become a benchmark in social psychology not only in the Spanish-speaking world but also internationally. We aim to continue in the same vein, and to do so, we have added to the editorial team social psychologists from numerous countries — many of them Latin American — all of whom are extremely prestigious in their fields. I would like to thank them here for their swift, affirmative responses to my request. I would particularly like to express my gratitude to Guillermo B. Willis, who agreed to accompany me in this journey as deputy editor. His solid training in both theory and methodology, as well as his efforts to constantly keep abreast of all the debates that are shaking up not only social psychology but also psychology and the sciences in general today, make his contribution to our journal particularly valuable. One of the goals we set out to achieve is to continue to raise the journal’s impact index and improve its position in the international rankings. Given the enormous pressure to which we are subjected, particularly in the Spanish system, to secure six-year research periods and accreditations, or to defend a doctoral thesis, it would be futile to ignore these pressures and disregard impact indexes and quartiles because of their limitations and biases. However, we want to raise the impact factor by improving the quality of the studies published, getting more authors from other countries to think about our journal as a place to publish their