ISSN 1015-6046 printed version
ISSN 2309-8708 online version

ABOUT THIS JOURNAL

• Basic Information
• Indexing Sources
• Copyright Statement
• Journal Sponsorship

PINS (Psychology in Society) is a peer–reviewed journal that was formed in September 1983 as vehicle for a critical and anti–apartheid stance in psychology.

PINS aims to foster a socio–historical and critical theory perspective by focusing on the theory and practice of psychology in the southern African context.

Types of articles published in PINS include Editorials, Original Research Articles, Book Reviews and Briefings.

From 2024 PINS publishes one volume a year with two issues in June and December.

Key Abbreviated title of the journal is Psychol. Soc. (Online)

PINS is indexed in:

• AURSI (African Urban and Regional Science Index)

Work published in PINS is licensed under a Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

PINS is an open access journal, and the authors and journal should be properly acknowledged, when works are cited.

Authors may use the publisher’s version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.

A copy of the authors’ publisher’s version may also be hosted on the following websites:

• Non–commercial personal homepage or blog.
• Institutional webpage.
• Authors Institutional Repository.

The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in PINS, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI.
Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/pins) may be found.

The Authors' publisher version, affiliated with Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s Institutional Repository SUNScholar.

Articles as a whole, may not be re–published with another journal.

Both PINS and the authors of articles published therein retain copyright.

PINS is an independent journal.