Journal scope statement

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ® publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology and emphasizes empirical reports, simply may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers.

The journal is divided into three independently edited sections.

Attitudes and Social Noesis addresses all aspects of psychology (eastward.thousand., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that take place in meaning micro- and macrolevel social contexts.

Topics include, simply are not limited to, attitudes, persuasion, attributions, stereotypes, prejudice, person memory, motivation and self-regulation, communication, social development, cultural processes, and the interplay of moods and emotions with cognition.

We accept papers using traditional social-personality psychology methods. Nevertheless, we likewise strongly welcome innovative, theory-driven papers that utilize novel methods (eastward.g., biological methods, neuroscience, large-scale interventions, social network analyses, or "large data" approaches).

Papers that are driven by such methods may exist candy under a new category of "Innovations in Social Psychology" and potentially handled in an expedited manner (see editorial published online).

All papers will be evaluated with criteria that are consequent with those of the best empirical outlets in social, behavioral, and biological sciences.

Interpersonal Relations and Grouping Processes focuses on the psychology of (interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup) social relations and relationships, whether enduring or fleeting.

Submissions may address ane type of social relation (e.g., close romantic relationships) or they may address multiple types of social relation (due east.g., status inside a team and across an establishment). Submissions may utilize i method or multiple methods. Submissions may examine ane context or multiple contexts (e.1000., countries, developmental menstruation).

Although a multiplicity of methods and contexts volition likely be considered a strength, all submissions should address the implications of the called method and context for the power and quality of inference.

For more on the orientation of the section please refer to the Editor's Editorial: Colin Wayne Leach, editor, JPSP-IRGP department, December 2019 (PDF, 85KB).

Personality Processes and Individual Differences publishes research on all aspects of personality psychology. It includes studies of private differences and basic processes in beliefs, emotions, coping, wellness, motivation, and other phenomena that reflect personality.

Manufactures in areas such every bit personality construction, personality development, and personality assessment are likewise advisable to this section of the periodical, as are studies of the interplay of culture and personality and manifestations of personality in everyday behavior.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology presume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced by the authors of its manufactures.

Journal highlights

CABS 2018 Academic Journal Guide: Grade 4 (top-ranked)

Announcements

  • APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines
  • New editor appointed

From Monitor on Psychology

  • A broadening field
    The new editor of Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes strives for inclusivity (October 2013)

Editor Spotlight

  • Read an interview with Editor Richard E. Lucas, PhD
  • Read an interview with Editor Colin Wayne Leach, PhD
  • Read an interview with Editor Shinobu Kitayama, PhD

Editorials

  • Richard E. Lucas, editor, JSPP-PPID section, November 2021 (PDF, 71KB)
  • Colin Wayne Leach, editor, JPSP-IRGP section, December 2019 (PDF, 85KB)
  • Shinobu Kitayama, editor, JPSP-ASC section, March 2017 (PDF, 30KB)
  • Kerry Kawakami, editor, JPSP-IRGP section, January 2015 (PDF, 16KB)
  • M. Lynne Cooper, editor, JPSP-PPID department, March 2016 (PDF, 30KB)

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Submission Guidelines

Prior to submission, please advisedly read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may exist returned without review.

General submission guidelines

The editorial team of theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology is committed to both transparency and rigor in conducting and reporting inquiry. Nosotros believe that science advances through a cyclical and recursive process that includes both (i) a theory-edifice, exploratory/descriptive stage and (2) a theory-testing, confirmatory phase. Further, we recognize that replication efforts are the function and parcel of the science that is empirically valid and socially responsible. We therefore back up and encourage inquiry that is informed by both phases. Guided by this overarching philosophy, we prepare out some physical submission standards.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open up Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Constructive July one, 2021, empirical enquiry, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology must at to the lowest degree meet the "requirement" level (Level 2) for citation; data, code, and materials transparency; design and analysis transparency; and written report and assay programme preregistration. Authors should include a subsection in the method department titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the Elevation guidelines.

For example:

  • Nosotros 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 lawmaking, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version four.0.0 (R Cadre Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.2.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study's design and its analysis were non pre-registered.

Links to preregistrations and information, code, and materials should too be included in the writer annotation.

Information, materials, and code

Authors must state whether data and study materials are available and where to access them. If they cannot be made bachelor, authors must state the legal or ethical reasons why they are not available. Recommended repositories include APA'due south repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

In both the Author Notation and at the terminate of the method section, specify whether and where the data and materials are available or note the legal or upstanding reasons for not doing so. For submissions with quantitative or simulation analytic methods, state whether the study analysis code is available, and, if and then, where to access it (or the legal or ethical reason why it is not bachelor).

For example:

  • All data have been fabricated publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
  • Materials and analysis code for this study are not available.
  • The code behind this analysis/simulation has been fabricated publicly available at the [repository proper noun] and tin be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

If you cannot make your information bachelor on a public site, authors are required to follow current APA policy to make the materials and data used in a published report bachelor in a timely manner to other researchers upon request.

If an writer has multiple studies, the repository landing page should clearly identify how to access the specific type of information for each written report and the links.

  • Download a quick guide on how to organize this information (PDF, 310KB)

Disclosure of prior uses of information

Upon submission of a manuscript, the authors must disclose any prior uses in published, accepted, or nether review papers of data reported in the manuscript. The comprehend alphabetic character should include a complete reference listing of these articles besides every bit a description of the extent and nature of whatever overlap between the present submission and the previous work.

Citation standards

Upon submission, all data sets, materials, and programme code created by others must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the reference section. Such materials should be recognized as original intellectual contributions and afforded recognition through citation.

Where possible, references for data sets and program code should include a persistent identifier assigned by digital archives, such equally a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Data set up citation case:
Campbell, Angus, and Robert Fifty. Kahn. American National Ballot
Written report, 1948. ICPSR07218v3.
Ann Arbor, MI: Interuniversity
Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.
http://doi.org/ten.3886/ICPSR07218.v3

Design and analysis transparency

Authors must adhere to the Periodical Article Reporting Standards (JARS) (PDF, 220KB). See as well the specific department editorials and instructions on data to include in method and results sections. It is peculiarly important to provide justifiable power considerations and specific details related to sample characteristics.

Preregistration of studies and assay plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can be a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. Too, preregistration of analysis plans can exist useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators may reregister prior to conducting the inquiry (e.thou., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template) via a publicly attainable registry system (due east.one thousand., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

At the same time, we recognize that there may exist good reasons to alter a report or analysis program after it has been preregistered, and thus encourage authors to do so when appropriate so long as all changes are clearly and transparently disclosed in the manuscript.

The periodical too acknowledges that preregistration may non always be advisable, specially in the exploratory phases of a research projection. If authors choose to preregister their inquiry and analyses plans, all documents should be succinct, specific, and targeted, as well as anonymized to maintain double-bullheaded peer review.

Articles must state whether or not any piece of work was preregistered and, if and then, where to access the preregistration. Preregistrations must exist available to reviewers; authors may submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material. Links in the method section and the writer note should be replaced with an identifiable copy on acceptance.

For example:

  • This report'southward design was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study'south pattern and hypotheses were preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study'south analysis plan was preregistered; run into [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study was non preregistered.

Whether or not a report is preregistered, theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology stresses the importance of transparency in reporting and expects researchers to fully disclose in their manuscript all decisions that were data-dependent (east.g., deciding when to terminate information collection, what observations to exclude, what covariates to include, and what analyses to comport subsequently rather than earlier seeing the information).

Replication and Registered Reports

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology acknowledges the significance of replication in building a cumulative knowledge base in our field. We therefore encourage submissions that endeavour to replicate important findings, especially research previously published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Major criteria for publication of replication papers include (i) theoretical significance of the finding existence replicated, (ii) statistical power of the written report that is carried out, and (iii) the number and ability of previous replications of the same finding.

Other factors that would weigh in favor of a replication submission include: pre-registration of hypotheses, design, and analysis; submissions by researchers other than the authors of the original findings; and attempts to replicate more than than one study of a multi-study original publication.

Please annotation in the Manuscript Submission Portal that the submission is a replication article; submissions should include "A Replication of Xx Study" in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract. Replication manuscripts, if accepted, will be published online only and will exist listed in the Table of Contents in the print journal.

Papers that make a substantial novel conceptual contribution and too comprise replications of previous findings continue to be welcome equally regular submissions.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology will besides publish Registered Reports. Such submissions will consist of a detailed inquiry proposal, including an abstract, introduction, hypotheses, method, planned analyses, and implications of the expected results.

Nosotros recommend that authors initially contact the editor before submitting a Registered Study. The proposed inquiry volition exist reviewed and, if approved, should so be carried out in accordance with the proposed plan.

To the extent that the written report is judged to have been competently performed, the paper will be accepted (pending any necessary revisions) regardless of the effect of the study.

Section submission guidelines

Submit manuscripts to the appropriate section editor. Section editors reserve the right to redirect papers as advisable. When papers are judged as amend suited for some other section, editors ordinarily will return papers to authors and suggest resubmission to the more appropriate department.

Rejection by 1 section editor is considered rejection by all; therefore a manuscript rejected past i section editor should not be submitted to another.

All 3 sections of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology are now using a software arrangement to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content.

The organisation compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript against a database of 40+ one thousand thousand scholarly documents, too every bit content appearing on the open web.

This allows APA to check submissions for potential overlap with material previously published in scholarly journals (due east.g., lifted or republished material).

Attitudes and Social Cognition

To submit to the Editorial Part of Shinobu Kitayama, delight submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Word Document format (.doc).

Prepare manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the seventhursday edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-gratuitous language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Transmission). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7thursday edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Attitudes and Social Cognition Section

Shinobu Kitayama, PhD
University of Michigan
6118 Plant for Social Research
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248

Full general correspondence may exist directed to the editor's role.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition now also welcomes innovative, theory-driven submissions that utilize novel methods under the Innovations in Social Psychology category.

For all research articles, authors must include the following data:

  • a broad give-and-take on how the authors sought to maximize power in terms of, for case, sample size, comeback of measures, manipulation checks, and other elements as applicable. A relevant segment of the newspaper must be highlighted in yellow;
  • a discussion on the diversity and inclusiveness (or lack thereof) of the sample. A relevant segment must exist highlighted in light blue; and
  • a give-and-take on how the reported study or set of studies contributes to cumulative theoretical knowledge in psychology. A relevant segment must exist highlighted in light green.

Authors are besides required to embed tables and figures within the manuscript, instead of providing these afterward the references.

A more detailed explanation of these requirements can be constitute in Dr. Kitayama'south editorial (PDF, 30KB).

Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

To submit to the Editorial Part of Colin Wayne Leach, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Discussion (.docx) or LaTex (.tex) as a zippo file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

Starting June 15, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should exist prepared according to the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Clan. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7th edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Interpersonal Relations and Grouping Processes Section

Colin Wayne Leach
Barnard Higher
Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Authors are also required to embed tables and figures inside the manuscript, instead of providing these after the references.

General correspondence may exist directed to the editor's role.

Personality Processes and Private Differences

To submit to the Editorial Function of Richard Lucas, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Word Certificate format (.doc).

Starting June 15, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should be prepared according to the 7thursday edition of the Publication Transmission of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the viith edition are bachelor.

Submit Manuscript to Personality Processes and Private Differences Department

Richard Lucas
Section of Psychology
Michigan State Academy
Eastward Lansing, MI 48824

General correspondence may be directed to the editor's office.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Private Differences at present requires that a cover letter be submitted with all new submissions.

The cover letters should:

  • Include the author's postal accost, electronic mail address, telephone number, and fax number for future correspondence
  • State that the manuscript is original, not previously published, and not under concurrent consideration elsewhere
  • Indicate whether a previous version of the submitted manuscript was previously rejected from any section of Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology; and if so, place the action editor handling the previous submission, provide the prior manuscript #, and draw how the present article differs from the previously rejected one
  • State that the data were collected in a manner consistent with ethical standards for the handling of human being subjects
  • Inform the journal editor of the beingness of any published piece of work using the same information (in whole or in function) every bit was used in the nowadays manuscript; if such publications exist, describe the extent and nature of any overlap betwixt the present submission and the previously published work
  • Mention any supplemental material beingness submitting for the online version of the article

Authors are also required to embed tables and figures within the manuscript, instead of providing these subsequently the references.

Manuscript grooming

Prepare manuscripts co-ordinate to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-free language (meet Chapter five of the Publication Manual).

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

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

Cumulative line numbers must be included with all submissions.

Masked review policy

The journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The embrace letter should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The beginning page of text should omit this data only should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Every effort should exist made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approval, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.g., Create a View-merely Link for a Project).

Word limits

Although papers should be written as succinctly as possible, there is no formal word limit on submissions.

Author contributions statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) stipulates that "authorship encompasses…non only persons who do the writing just too those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study." In the spirit of transparency and openness, theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to draw each writer's private contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors will be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission according to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accustomed for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an writer contributions statement in the author note of the final article. All authors should accept reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(southward) before submission.

CRediT includes fourteen contributor roles, every bit described below:

  • Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or development of overarching enquiry goals and aims.
  • Information curation: Management activities to comment (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and afterwards reuse.
  • Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to clarify or synthesize report data.
  • Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the fiscal support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/testify drove.
  • Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
  • Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research action planning and execution.
  • Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, calculating resources, or other analysis tools.
  • Software: Programming, software development; designing calculator programs; implementation of the estimator code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing lawmaking components.
  • Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activeness planning and execution, including mentorship external to the cadre team.
  • Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
  • Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
  • Writing—original draft: Preparation, cosmos and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  • Writing—review and editing: Training, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or mail-publication stages.

Authors can claim credit for more than one correspondent role, and the aforementioned role can be attributed to more than 1 writer.

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a dissever folio. After the abstruse, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text commendation 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 linguistic communication utilize: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), ane–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Dark-brown, 50. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Affiliate in an edited book

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

Information gear up citation

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

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(three), i–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/ten.21105/joss.01686

All data, program lawmaking, and other methods must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the references section.

Tables

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Figures

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

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

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When possible, please place symbol legends below the effigy instead of to the side.

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

The same caption volition appear on both the online (color) and impress (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can exist understood in both formats, authors should add alternative diction (due east.g., "the red (dark greyness) confined correspond") as needed.

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

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  • An additional $600 for the 2nd effigy
  • An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

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

For instance:

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

As of July 1, 2021, empirical inquiry, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology must, at a minimum, meet Level 2 (Requirement) for all aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in their methods description titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should particular the efforts the authors accept made to comply with the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Top) guidelines.

The list below summarizes the minimal TOP requirements of the journal. Delight refer to the Center for Open Scientific discipline Summit guidelines for details, and contact the editors with any further questions:

  • Attitudes and Social Cognition: Shinobu Kitayama, PhD
  • Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes: Colin Wayne Leach, PhD
  • Personality Processes and Individual Differences: Richard Lucas, PhD

Authors must share data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (east.grand., APA's repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF)), and APA encourages investigators to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research. At that place are many available preregistration forms (e.chiliad., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Inquiry 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.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A list of participating journals is also available from APA.

The following list presents the eight central aspects of research planning and reporting, the Elevation level required past theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, and a brief description of the journal's policy.

  • Citation: Level 2, Requirement—All data, plan lawmaking, and other methods adult by others must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the References section.
  • Data Transparency: Level two, Requirement—Commodity states whether the raw and/or processed information on which study conclusions are based are available and where to admission them. If the data cannot be made bachelor, the commodity states the legal or ethical reasons why they are not available.
  • Analytic Methods (Lawmaking) Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether reckoner code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is available and where to access it. If it cannot be made available, the article states the legal or ethical reasons why it is not available.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether materials described in the Method section are bachelor and where to admission them. If they cannot exist made available, the article states the legal or ethical reasons why they are not available.
  • Blueprint and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level ii, Requirement—Article must comply with APA Style Journal Commodity Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant and/or MARS) and disclose all decisions that were data-dependent (e.g., deciding when to stop data collection, what observations to exclude, what covariates to include, and what analyses to carry after rather than before seeing the information).
  • Study Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Commodity states whether the study design and (if applicable) hypotheses of whatever of the work reported was preregistered and, if so, where to access information technology. Access to the preregistration should exist available at submission. Authors must submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental fabric.
  • Analysis Program Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether any of the work reported was preregistered with an analysis plan and, if and then, where to access it. Access to the preregistration should be bachelor at submission. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.

Other open science initiatives

  • Open Science badges: Non offered
  • Public significance statements: Non offered
  • Author contribution statements using CRediT: Required
  • Registered Reports: Published
  • Replications: Published

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