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Psychological Review ® publishes articles that brand important theoretical contributions to any expanse of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate.

There is no upper bound on the length of Psychological Review articles. However, authors who submit papers with texts longer than 25,000 words will exist asked to justify the need for their length.

Psychological Review also publishes, equally Theoretical Notes, commentary that contributes to progress in a given subfield of scientific psychology. Such notes include, but are non limited to, discussions of previously published articles, comments that apply to a class of theoretical models in a given domain, critiques and discussions of alternative theoretical approaches, and meta-theoretical commentary on theory testing and related topics.

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Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Elena L. Grigorenko, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word or Open Office format.

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Masked review policy

Open (i.e., unmasked) review is the default for this journal, though masked review is an pick. If you choose masked review, include authors' names and affiliations only in the cover letter for the manuscript.

Authors who choose masked review should brand every attempt to come across that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approval, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.grand., Create a View-merely Link for a Project).

Length

In that location is no upper bound on the length of Psychological Review manufactures.

Submissions must be nether 5 MB in full size.

Psychological Review publishes direct replications if they are relevant to and/or embedded in new or enhanced theories. Submissions should include a mention of the replication in the abstract.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors should review the APA Manner Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative and mixed methods. The standards offering means to better transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Elevation) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Constructive Baronial 1, 2021, empirical enquiry submitted to Psychological Review must at least run into the "disclosure" level for all eight aspects of enquiry planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled "Transparency and openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors accept fabricated to comply with the Meridian guidelines. For case:

  • We report how nosotros determined our sample size, all information exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and nosotros follow JARS (Kazak, 2018). All data, analysis code, and inquiry materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version four.0.0 (R Cadre Team, 2020) and the packet ggplot, version 3.2.one (Wickham, 2016). This study's pattern and its analysis were not pre-registered.

Links to preregistrations and data, code, and materials should also exist included in the author notation.

Data, materials, and code

Reviews that include quantitative analyses (eastward.grand., meta-analyses) must country whether information and written report materials (if these were created for the review, due east.g., coding schemes) are available and, if then, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA'south repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can admission a full list of other recommended repositories.

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Preregistration of studies and analysis plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can exist a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. As well, preregistration of assay plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators are encouraged to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research (e.thousand., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template) via a publicly accessible registry system (eastward.thousand., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

Articles must state whether or non any piece of work was preregistered and, if so, where to access the preregistration. If reviews were pre-registered equally protocols or if quantitative analyses were pre-registered, include the registry links in the method section and the author note.

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  • For a systematic review:
    This review'southward protocol was pre-registered at [stable link to protocol]. We followed the PRISMA-P checklist when preparing the protocol, and we followed PRISMA reporting guidelines for the final study.
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    This review was not pre-registered. Nosotros followed PRISMA reporting guidelines for the final study.

Manuscript grooming

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition). Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-gratuitous language (see Affiliate 3 of the 6th edition or Affiliate 5 of the 7th edition).

Review APA'southward Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your commodity.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Manner is available on the APA Mode website.

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Display equations

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Estimator lawmaking

Authors of accustomed articles who report new figurer simulations of models, or new data-analysis software, are required to provide the lawmaking as online supplemental material ("boosted content") at the time of final manuscript submission. It is of import to include adequate documentation so that the code tin be downloaded and used by other researchers.

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In online supplemental material

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In the text of the article

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Tables

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LaTex files

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Submitting supplemental materials

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Abstruse and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. Afterwards the abstract, please supply upwards to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical guild. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, Southward. Grand., & Christiansen, G. H. (2019). Linguistic communication learning as linguistic communication use: A cantankerous-linguistic model of child linguistic communication development. Psychological Review, 126(i), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brownish, Fifty. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. Grand. P., & Safren, South. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive beliefs therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In M. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Exercise and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Data set commendation

Alegria, Chiliad., Jackson, J. S., Kessler, R. C., & Takeuchi, D. (2016). Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001–2003 [Data gear up]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20240.v8

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor packet. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(iii), 1–48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

Wickham, H. et al., (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Periodical of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686, https://doi.org/x.21105/joss.01686

All secondary data and program code and other methods from other articles should be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the References section.

Figures

Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff or EPS files. Multipanel figures (i.east., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into 1 file.

The minimum line weight for line art is 0.v point for optimal press.

For more information well-nigh adequate resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please come across the general guidelines.

When possible, please identify symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

APA offers authors the selection to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption volition appear on both the online (colour) and impress (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add together alternative wording (e.g., "the red (night gray) bars represent") as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to exist published in color both in print and online, original color figures tin be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

  • $900 for ane effigy
  • an boosted $600 for the second figure
  • an additional $450 for each subsequent effigy

Permissions

Authors of accustomed papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in impress and electronic form any copyrighted work, including examination materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may pass up to publish any epitome whose copyright status is unknown.

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Publication policies

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration past two or more publications.

Encounter also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the deport and reporting of research (e.1000., fiscal interests in a exam or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug inquiry).

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Authors who have posted their manuscripts to preprint athenaeum prior to submission should include a link to the preprint.

Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

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Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original information, information that accept been previously published" (Standard viii.thirteen).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "later on research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data just for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to take their data bachelor throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the appointment of publication.

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Editorial Board

Editor

Elena 50. Grigorenko, PhD
University of Houston, United States

Associate editors

Julian Elliott, PhD
Durham University, United Kingdom

Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, PhD
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Andrew Healthcote
Academy of Newcastle, Australia

Lucina Uddin, PhD
Academy of California, Los Angeles, United States

Han L. J. Van der Maas, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael R. Waldmann, PhD
University of Göttingen, Frg

Consulting editors

John R. Anderson, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Marjan Bakker, PhD
Academy of Tilburg, Netherlands

Deanna Barch, PhD
Washington University, Usa

Jennifer A. Bartz, PhD
McGIll University, Canada

Denny Borsboom, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Holland

Nick Chater, PhD
University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Joey T. Cheng, PhD
York University, Canada

Chi-yue Chiu, PhD
The Chinese Academy of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Clintin P. Davis-Stober,  PhD
University of Missouri, Us

Leonidas Doumas, PhD
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Eli Finkel, PhD
Northwestern University, United States

Cleotilde Gonzalez, PhD
Carnegie Mellon Academy, Us

Tom Griffiths, PhD
Princeton Academy, U.s.

Ulrike Hahn, PhD
University of London, United Kingdom

Catherine A. Hartley, PhD
New York University, United states of america

Steven J. Heine, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Joni Holmes, PhD
Cambridge University, United kingdom

Jonathan D. Huppert, PhD
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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University of Pennsylvania, Us

Tatsuya Kameda, PhD
Academy of Tokyo, Japan

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Academy of California, Los Angeles, The states

David Kellen, PhD
Syracuse University, United States

Clare Kelly, PhD
University of Dublin, Ireland

Charles Kemp, PhD
Academy of Melbourne, Australia

Rogier A. Kievit, PhD
Radboud University, Netherlands

Michael D. Lee, PhD
Academy of California, Irvine, United states of america

Stephan Lewandowsky, PhD
University of Bristol, United kingdom

Matthew Lieberman, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, The states

Daniel R. Little, PhD
University of Melbourne, Australia

Gordon Logan, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Tina Malti, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada

Jon Maner, PhD
Florida Land University, United States

Andrew J. Martin, PhD
University of New Southward Wales, Australia

Janet Metcalfe, PhD
Columbia Academy, United States

Vijay A. Mittal, PhD
Northwestern University, United States

John Opfer, PhD
The Ohio Land University, United States

Adam Osth, PhD
The University of Melbourne, Commonwealth of australia

Jörg Rieskamp, PhD
University of Basel, Switzerland

Ajay Bhaskar Satpute, PhD
Northeastern Academy, Usa

Disa Sauter, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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McGill Academy, Canada

Mark Steyvers, PhD
University of California, Irvine, United States

Marius Usher,
Tel Aviv University, Israel

Chandan Vaidya, PhD
Georgetown Academy, United states

Daniel T. Willingham, PhD
University of Virginia, United States

Wendy Wood, PhD
University of Southern California, United States

Virgil Zeigler-Loma, PhD
Oakland University, United States

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Top) Guidelines past a community working group in conjunction with the Centre for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). The Pinnacle Guidelines cover viii primal aspects of enquiry planning and reporting that tin exist followed past journals and authors at 3 levels of compliance.

For example:

  • Level 1: Disclosure—The article must disclose whether or not the materials are bachelor.
  • Level 2: Requirement—The commodity must share materials when legally and ethically permitted (or disclose the legal and/or upstanding restriction when not permitted).
  • Level 3: Verification—A third party must verify that the standard is met.

As of Baronial 1, 2021, empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to Psychological Review must, at a minimum, meet Level 1 (Disclosure) for all eight aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in their methods description titled "Transparency and openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors take made to comply with the Acme guidelines.

The listing beneath summarizes the minimal Meridian requirements of the periodical. Delight refer to the Center for Open Science Tiptop guidelines for details, and contact the editor (Elena Fifty. Grigorenko, PhD) with any further questions. APA recommends sharing data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (e.1000., APA'southward repository on the Open up Science Framework (OSF)), and we encourage investigators to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research. There are many available preregistration forms (e.1000., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template, ClininalTrials.gov, or other preregistration templates available via OSF). Completed preregistration forms should be posted on a publicly accessible registry organisation (due east.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A list of participating journals is also available from APA.

The post-obit list presents seven key aspects of research planning and reporting, the TOP level required byPsychological Review, and a cursory description of the periodical'southward policy. (The periodical besides publishes replications if they are relevant to and/or embedded in new or enhanced theories.)

  • Citation: Level i, Disclosure—All information, programme lawmaking, and other methods developed by others should be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the references section.
  • Data Transparency: Level ane, Disclosure—Article states whether the raw and/or processed data on which written report conclusions are based are bachelor and, if so, where to access them.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Commodity states whether calculator code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is available and, if then, where to access it.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Commodity states whether materials described in the method section are available and, if and so, where to admission them.
  • Design and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level one, Disclosure—The journal strongly encourages the use of APA Fashion Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant and/or MARS).
  • Study Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether the report design and (if applicable) hypotheses of any of the work reported was preregistered and, if so, where to access it. Authors may submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental textile or may provide a link after acceptance.
  • Assay Programme Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether whatever of the work reported preregistered an analysis plan and, if so, where to access it. Authors may submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental cloth or may provide a link after acceptance.

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