Journal scope statement

Psychological Review ® publishes articles that make of import theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, bug of method and blueprint, 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 volition 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, only are not limited to, discussions of previously published articles, comments that utilize to a grade of theoretical models in a given domain, critiques and discussions of culling theoretical approaches, and meta-theoretical commentary on theory testing and related topics.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of Psychological Review assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its articles.

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Submission Guidelines

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed beneath. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

To submit to the editorial function of Elena 50. Grigorenko, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word or Open Function format.

Prepare manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free linguistic communication (see Chapter five of the Publication Transmission). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7thursday edition are bachelor.

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Elena L. Grigorenko, PhD
Editor, Psychological Review

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Masked review policy

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

Authors who choose masked review should make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approving, self-citations, and links to online repositories for information, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.1000., Create a View-just Link for a Project).

Length

In that location is no upper leap on the length of Psychological Review articles.

Submissions must be nether 5 MB in total 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.

Periodical Article Reporting Standards

Authors should review the APA Mode Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative and mixed methods. The standards offering ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers take the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the inquiry and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Tiptop) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Centre for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Effective August 1, 2021, empirical research 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 item the efforts the authors take made to comply with the TOP guidelines. For instance:

  • We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and we follow JARS (Kazak, 2018). All data, analysis code, and research materials are bachelor at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version three.ii.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study's design and its analysis were not pre-registered.

Links to preregistrations and data, code, and materials should besides be included in the author note.

Data, materials, and code

Reviews that include quantitative analyses (e.m., meta-analyses) must state whether data and study materials (if these were created for the review, e.g., coding schemes) are bachelor and, if so, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA's repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors tin can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

In both the writer note and at the end of the method section, specify whether and where the information and material will be available or include a argument noting that they are not bachelor. For submissions with quantitative or simulation analytic methods, land whether the study analysis lawmaking is available, and, if so, where to admission information technology.

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  • All data accept been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
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  • Materials and assay lawmaking for this written report are not bachelor.
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Preregistration of studies and assay plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can be a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. Likewise, 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 (east.g., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template) via a publicly attainable registry system (e.thousand., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

Articles must country whether or non any work was preregistered and, if and then, where to access the preregistration. If reviews were pre-registered as protocols or if quantitative analyses were pre-registered, include the registry links in the method department and the author note.

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

Manuscript preparation

Fix manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Clan (7th edition). Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-costless language (see Chapter 3 of the sixth edition or Chapter 5 of the 7th edition).

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Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, announced in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is bachelor on the APA Fashion website.

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Brandish equations

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Computer lawmaking

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Tables

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LaTex files

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Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstruse containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. Subsequently the abstract, please supply up to 5 keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical order. 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, Due south. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Linguistic communication learning every bit language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(one), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (second ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/x.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited volume

Balsam, Chiliad. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive beliefs therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cerebral beliefs therapy: Do and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Clan. https://doi.org/x.1037/0000119-012

Data set up citation

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

Software/Lawmaking citation

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), ane–48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

Wickham, H. et al., (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, four(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 department.

Figures

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The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.

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

The aforementioned caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure tin be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., "the red (dark gray) bars correspond") as needed.

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

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

Permissions

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on last acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic course whatsoever copyrighted work, including examination materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

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Publication policies

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

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APA requires authors to reveal whatever possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of enquiry (e.g., financial interests in a test or process, funding past pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

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In calorie-free of changing patterns of scientific knowledge dissemination, APA requires authors to provide information on prior dissemination of the data and narrative interpretations of the data/research appearing in the manuscript (e.m., if some or all were presented at a conference or coming together, posted on a listserv, shared on a website, including academic social networks like ResearchGate, etc.). This information (2–4 sentences) must be provided as part of the Author Note.

Authors who have posted their manuscripts to preprint archives 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 data, data that take been previously published" (Standard viii.13).

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

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to take their information available throughout the editorial review procedure and for at least 5 years afterwards the date of publication.

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Editorial Lath

Editor

Elena L. Grigorenko, PhD
Academy of Houston, United States

Associate editors

Julian Elliott, PhD
Durham Academy, Uk

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

Andrew Healthcote
University of Newcastle, Australia

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

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

Michael R. Waldmann, PhD
University of Göttingen, Germany

Consulting editors

John R. Anderson, PhD
Carnegie Mellon Academy, United states of america

Marjan Bakker, PhD
University of Tilburg, Netherlands

Deanna Barch, PhD
Washington University, U.s.a.

Jennifer A. Bartz, PhD
McGIll Academy, Canada

Denny Borsboom, PhD
Academy of Amsterdam, Holland

Nick Chater, PhD
University of Warwick, Britain

Joey T. Cheng, PhD
York University, Canada

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

Clintin P. Davis-Stober,  PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Leonidas Doumas, PhD
University of Edinburgh, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

Eli Finkel, PhD
Northwestern Academy, Usa

Cleotilde Gonzalez, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Tom Griffiths, PhD
Princeton University, United states of america

Ulrike Hahn, PhD
University of London, United Kingdom

Catherine A. Hartley, PhD
New York University, The states

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

Joni Holmes, PhD
Cambridge University, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

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

Michael J. Kahana, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Usa

Tatsuya Kameda, PhD
University of Tokyo, Japan

Katherine H. Karlsgodt, PhD
Academy of California, Los Angeles, The states

David Kellen, PhD
Syracuse Academy, Us

Clare Kelly, PhD
Academy of Dublin, Ireland

Charles Kemp, PhD
University of Melbourne, Australia

Rogier A. Kievit, PhD
Radboud University, Netherlands

Michael D. Lee, PhD
University of California, Irvine, Usa

Stephan Lewandowsky, PhD
Academy of Bristol, United Kingdom

Matthew Lieberman, PhD
Academy of California, Los Angeles, United states of america

Daniel R. Little, PhD
University of Melbourne, Australia

Gordon Logan, PhD
Vanderbilt University, Us

Tina Malti, PhD
Academy of Toronto, Canada

Jon Maner, PhD
Florida State Academy, Usa

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

Janet Metcalfe, PhD
Columbia University, United States

Vijay A. Mittal, PhD
Northwestern University, United States

John Opfer, PhD
The Ohio Country University, United States

Adam Osth, PhD
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Jörg Rieskamp, PhD
University of Basel, Switzerland

Ajay Bhaskar Satpute, PhD
Northeastern University, U.s.a.

Disa Sauter, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

R. Nathan Spreng, PhD
McGill University, Canada

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

Marius Usher,
Tel Aviv University, State of israel

Chandan Vaidya, PhD
Georgetown University, United states

Daniel T. Willingham, PhD
University of Virginia, U.s.

Wendy Wood, PhD
Academy of Southern California, United States

Virgil Zeigler-Hill, PhD
Oakland Academy, Us

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Top) Guidelines by a community working grouping in conjunction with the Centre for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). The TOP Guidelines cover eight fundamental aspects of research planning and reporting that can be followed by journals and authors at three levels of compliance.

For example:

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

Every bit of Baronial 1, 2021, empirical enquiry, 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 have made to comply with the TOP guidelines.

The list below summarizes the minimal TOP requirements of the journal. Please refer to the Center for Open up Science TOP guidelines for details, and contact the editor (Elena Fifty. Grigorenko, PhD) with whatsoever farther questions. APA recommends sharing data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (east.thou., APA's repository on the Open Scientific discipline 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.thou., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Enquiry in Psychology template, ClininalTrials.gov, or other preregistration templates available via OSF). Completed preregistration forms should be posted on a publicly accessible registry system (e.thousand., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A listing of participating journals is likewise available from APA.

The following listing presents seven fundamental aspects of research planning and reporting, the Peak level required pastPsychological Review, and a brief description of the periodical's policy. (The journal also publishes replications if they are relevant to and/or embedded in new or enhanced theories.)

  • Citation: Level i, Disclosure—All data, program code, and other methods developed by others should be accordingly cited in the text and listed in the references section.
  • Data Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Commodity states whether the raw and/or processed data on which study conclusions are based are available and, if so, where to admission them.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level one, Disclosure—Commodity states whether computer code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is available and, if so, where to access it.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level ane, Disclosure—Article states whether materials described in the method department are available and, if so, where to access them.
  • Pattern and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level 1, Disclosure—The periodical strongly encourages the utilise of APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant and/or MARS).
  • Study Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether the written report design and (if applicable) hypotheses of whatever of the piece of work reported was preregistered and, if so, where to access it. Authors may submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material or may provide a link afterward acceptance.
  • Analysis Plan Preregistration: Level ane, Disclosure—Article states whether any of the piece of work reported preregistered an assay plan and, if and then, where to access it. Authors may submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental material or may provide a link after acceptance.

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