Peer reviewed research provides some degree of __________ for psychological research.

Submission Guidelines

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

Registered Reports

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes Registered Reports (RRs). Registered Reports require a two-step review process.

The first step is the submission of the registration manuscript. This is a partial manuscript that includes hypotheses, rationale for the study, experimental design, and methods. The partial manuscript will be reviewed for significance and methodological approach.

If the partial manuscript is accepted, this amounts to provisional acceptance of the full report regardless of the outcome of the study. The full manuscript will be reviewed for adherence to the preregistered design.

The journal has partnered with the Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI-RR) as an “interested” journal to encourage the publication of Registered Reports.

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General may offer to review or publish any Stage 1 or Stage 2 Registered Reports within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives in-principle PCI RR acceptance or recommendation. Eligible Registered Reports will be subject to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General’s additional criteria. Further details are available on PCI RR’s website.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Dr. Sarah Brown-Schmidt, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. The text should be double-spaced with a minimum of 10-point font. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7th edition are available. Manuscripts that do not follow the Guidelines for font, spacing, and other Style matters may be returned to the authors.

Submit Manuscript

The file format should be Microsoft Word Format (.doc or .docx), or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

To facilitate readability, please include tables, figures, and figure legends as appropriate in the manuscript close to where they would appear in the published article. Note however that when a paper is accepted, a file will need to be promptly submitted that must exactly copy, in all respects and in a single Word file, the complete APA-style printed version of the manuscript.

In a cover letter, provide the following information:

• a brief paragraph summarizing how the work might be of broad, general interest or appeal to more than one traditional area of psychology;
• a list of 3–5 appropriate reviewers with no conflict of interest, explaining what their relevant expertise is;
• a list of non-preferred reviewers (no explanation is necessary but is welcomed);
• a list of 2 appropriate associate editors from the editorial board of Dr. Brown-Schmidt.

On the first page of the manuscript, provide a word count for the text excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowledgments, figures and figure legends, but including the abstract. If you have a web link to data or materials, please include it in your author note on the title page.

Articles in the journal will be evaluated for the quality of the research designs, in particular their ability to provide strong tests of broadly important theoretical hypotheses.

Articles will also be evaluated for the soundness of their statistical claims. Authors are urged to consider reporting effect sizes (and confidence intervals around them) and to discuss their practical and theoretical implications.

We also encourage authors to explain their sample sizes, ideally using power analyses based on effect sizes calculated from prior work, or when available, meta-analyses. This is particularly important when samples sizes are relatively small, or vary greatly from one experiment to the next, in which case the stopping rule for data collection should be clearly stated.

Authors should include a final Constraints on Generality paragraph (Simons, Shoda, & Lindsay, 2017) which “explicitly identifies and justifies the target populations for the reported findings.” The paragraph will be included in the word count for brief reports.

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

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 Style is available on the APA Style website.

In addition to mailing addresses and phone numbers, please supply an email address for potential use by the editorial office and later by the production office.

Keep a copy of the manuscript as a guard against loss.

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

Masked review policy

Masked reviews are optional. If you want a masked review, please select one of the masked article types upon submission. You will still include authors' names and affiliations on the title page, though reviewers will not have access to it. They will only see the main manuscript text and any supplemental file(s). Please be sure to also include this information in the cover letter.

Authors should make every effort to make sure 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. (Create and use an anonymized link to the repository.)

If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Manuscript review appeals

The process for appealing a manuscript decision is described on the APA's peer review process page.

Related Journals of Experimental Psychology

For the other JEP journals, authors should submit manuscripts according to the manuscript submission guidelines for each individual journal:

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.

Computer code

Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.

In the text of the article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

Tables

Use Word's insert table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

LaTex files

LaTex files (.tex) should be uploaded with all other files such as BibTeX Generated Bibliography File (.bbl) or Bibliography Document (.bib) together in a compressed ZIP file folder for the manuscript submission process. In addition, a Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file must be uploaded for the peer-review process.

Submitting supplemental materials

APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the PsycArticles® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

Author contribution statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) stipulates that “authorship encompasses…not only persons who do the writing but also those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study.” In the spirit of transparency and openness, Behavioral Neuroscience has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual 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 accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an Author Contributions Statement in the author note of the final article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, as described below:

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core 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, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing—review and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role can be attributed to more than one author.

Abstract and keywords

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

Public significance statements

Authors submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General are required to provide 2–3 (between 120–150 words) brief sentences regarding the public significance of the research described in their paper. This description should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page. It should be written in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public.

Examples:

• "This study strongly suggests that (description of a given psychosocial treatment) is an effective treatment for anxiety, but only if it is of mild to moderate severity. For persons with severe anxiety, additional treatments may be necessary."
• "When treating individuals of (name of a particular ethnic minority group) who are experiencing PTSD, this study demonstrated the importance of taking into account cultural factors, especially those that involve one's spiritual beliefs."
• "This study highlights the importance of directly including one's family in treatment when helping adults diagnosed with cancer overcome their depression."

To be maximally useful, these statements of public significance should not simply be sentences lifted directly out of the manuscript.

They are meant to be informative and useful to any reader. They should provide a bottom-line, take-home message that is accurate and easily understood. In addition, they should be able to be translated into media-appropriate statements for use in press releases and on social media.

Prior to final acceptance and publication, all public significance statements will be carefully reviewed to make sure they meet these standards. Authors will be expected to revise statements as necessary.

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, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. //doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. //doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

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

Data set citation

Alegria, M., 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 Research. //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(3), 1–48. //www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

All data, program code and other methods must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the references section. Examples of the correct form are above.

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 0.5 point for optimal printing.

For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.

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

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

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

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

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

Permissions

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

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

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Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Effective August 1, 2022, empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General must meet the “requirement” level for citation, data and code transparency, and preregistration as well as the “disclosure” level for materials transparency and design and analysis transparency. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled “Transparency and openness.” This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the TOP guidelines. For example:

• 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 available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.2.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study’s design and its analysis were not pre-registered.

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

Data, materials, and code

Authors must make data and code available or explain the legal and/or ethical reasons why they cannot be provided. Authors must state whether study materials are available and, if so, where to access them. Recommended repositories include APA’s repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

If you are unable to share the de-identified data and/or code due to legal or ethical reasons, this in and of itself is not a barrier to publication in the journal. In such situations, please mention the concern in the cover letter to the editor. The editorial team will consider exceptions to these requirements on a case-by-case basis.

For example:

• All data have been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
• Data and code associated with this study are not available because [legal or ethical reason].
• The code behind this analysis/simulation has been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

Preregistration of studies and analysis plans

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

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

For example:

• This study’s design was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s design and hypotheses were preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s analysis plan was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study was not preregistered.

Design and analysis transparency

Authors should consider the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) when reporting empirical research. The standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

The JARS:

• recommend the division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into primary, secondary, and exploratory groupings to allow for a full understanding of quantitative analyses presented in a manuscript and to enhance reproducibility;
• offer modules for authors reporting on replications, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and observational studies, as well as the analytic methods of structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis; and
• include guidelines on reporting of study preregistration (including making protocols public); participant characteristics (including demographic characteristics); inclusion and exclusion criteria; psychometric characteristics of outcome measures and other variables; and planned data diagnostics and analytic strategy.

The guidelines focus on transparency in methods reporting, recommending descriptions of how the researcher's own perspective affected the study, as well as the contexts in which the research and analysis took place.

Publication policies

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

See also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.

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

• Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB)

In light 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.g., if some or all were presented at a conference or meeting, 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 of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

• For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
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Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after 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 only 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 have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

• Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

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Visit the Journals Publishing Resource Center for more resources for writing, reviewing, and editing articles for publishing in APA journals.

References

Nosek, B. A., Alter, G., Banks, G. C., Borsboom, D., Bowman, S. D., Breckler, S. J., Buck, S., Chambers, C. D., Chin, G., Christensen, G., Contestabile, M., Dafoe, A., Eich, E., Freese, J., Glennerster, R., Goroff, D., Green, D. P., Hesse, B., Humphreys, M., Ishiyama, J., Karlan, D., . . . Yarkoni, T. (2016, October 5). Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. Science, 348(6242), 1422–1425. //doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2374

Editorial Board

• Research specializations of the editor-in-chief and associate editors

Incoming (2023) editor

Sarah Brown-Schmidt, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Incoming (2023) associate editors

Wilma Bainbridge, PhD
University of Chicago, United States

Ayşecan Boduroğlu, PhD
Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Michele Diaz, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University, United States

Kimberly Fenn, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Sarah Gaither, PhD
Duke University, United States

Rachael Jack, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Agnieszka Konopka, PhD
Aberdeen University, United Kingdom

Tamar Kushnir, PhD
Duke University, United States

Tara Mandalaywala, PhD
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, United States

Ashleigh Maxcey, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Jared Medina, PhD
University of Delaware, United States

Ross Otto, PhD
McGill University, Canada

Jessica Payne, PhD
University of Notre Dame, United States

Megan Saylor, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Karen Schloss, PhD
University of Wisconsin, United States

Eliot Smith, PhD
Indiana University, United States

Joo-Hyun Song, PhD
Brown University, United States

Abigail B. Sussman, PhD
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, United States

Laura Thomas, PhD
North Dakota State University, United States

Joseph Toscano, PhD
Villanova University, United States

Sharda Umanath, PhD
Claremont McKenna College, United States

Lotte Van Dillen, PhD
Leiden University, Netherlands

Timothy Vickery, PhD
University of Delaware, United States

Nicole Wicha, PhD
University of Texas San Antonio, United States

Rachel Wu, PhD
University of California Riverside, United States

Outgoing editor

Nelson Cowan, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Outgoing associate editors

Hal R. Arkes, PhD
Ohio State University, United States

D. Vaughn Becker, PhD
Arizona State University, United States

Tim Curran, PhD
University of Colorado at Boulder, United States

Eddy J. Davelaar, PhD
University of London, United Kingdom

Oriel FeldmanHall, PhD
Brown University

Crystal L. Hoyt
University of Richmond

Rachael E. Jack, MSc, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Zsuzsa Kaldy
University of Massachusetts Boston, United States

Kristen A. Lindquist, PhD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Robert Logie, PhD
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Jessica D. Payne, PhD
University of Notre Dame, United States

Timothy J. Pleskac
University of Kansas, United States

Eliot R. Smith, PhD
Indiana University, United States

Joo-Hyun Song, PhD
Brown University, United States

Charles Spence, PhD
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Cathie Tamis-LeMonda, PhD
New York University, United States

Julie Van Dyke, PhD
Haskins Laboratories, United States

Adam Waytz
Northwestern University, United States

Outgoing consulting editors

Daniel Algom, PhD
Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Erik Altmann, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Edward Awh, PhD
University of Chicago, United States

Heather Bailey, PhD
Kansas State University, United States

Mara Breen, PhD
Mount Holyoke College, United States

Norman Brown, PhD
University of Alberta, Canada

C. Daryl Cameron, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University, United States

Valerie Camos, PhD
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

Alan Castel, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Andrew Cohen, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

Roi Cohen Kadosh, PhD
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Sara Cordes, PhD
Boston College, United States

Fergus I. M. Craik, PhD
Rotman Research Institute, Canada

Jan De Houwer, PhD
Ghent University, Belgium

Gary S. Dell, PhD
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States

Wim De Neys, PhD, HDR
CNRS & Université de Paris, France

Michael Dodd, PhD
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, United States

Paul Edmund Dux, PhD
The University of Queensland, Australia

Kimberly Fenn, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Fernanda Ferreira, PhD
University of California, Davis, United States

Daryl Fougnie, PhD
Harvard University, United States

Michael Frank, PhD
Stanford University, United States

Kentaro Fujita, PhD
The Ohio State University, United States

David Geary, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Wim Geverz, PhD
Universtité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

Simona Ghetti, PhD
University of California, Davis, United States

Cleotilde Gonzalez, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Michael J. Hautus, PhD
The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Evan Heit, PhD
National Science Foundation, United States

Avishai Henik, PhD
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Christopher Hertzog, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

William Hirst, PhD
New School for Social Research, United States

Scott P. Johnson, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Katherine Kinzler, PhD
Cornell University, United States

Iring Koch, PhD
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

John K. Kruschke, PhD
Indiana University, Bloomington, United States

Victor Kuperman, PhD
McMaster University, Canada

Susan C. Levine, PhD
University of Chicago, United States

Roger Levy, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Zhicheng Lin, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Ulman Lindenberger, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany

Ottmar Lipp, PhD
Curtin University, Australia

Simon Liversedge, PhD
University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom

Juan Lupiáñez, PhD
Universidad de Granada, Spain

Brooke Macnamara, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, United States

Timo Mantyla, PhD
Stockholm University, Sweden

Chad J. Marsolek, PhD
University of Minnesota, United States

E.J. Masicampo, PhD
Wake Forest University, United States

Koleen McCrink, PhD
Barnard College - Columbia University, United States

Nicole McNeil
University of Notre Dame, United States

Wendy Berry Mendes, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, United States

Jeff Miller, PhD
University of Otago, New Zealand

Karen Mitchell, PhD
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, United States

Akira Miyake, PhD
University of Colorado – Boulder, United States

Cathleen Moore, PhD
University of Iowa, United States

Lars Nyberg, PhD
Umeå University, Sweden

Klaus Oberauer, PhD
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Elizabeth Page-Gould, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada

Thomas J. Palmeri, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Markus Paulus, PhD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Timothy J. Pleskac, PhD
University of Kansas, United States

Katherine Rawson, PhD
Kent State University, United States

Timothy Rickard, PhD
University of California, San Diego, United States

Timothy Ricker, PhD
College of Staten Island, City University of New York, United States

Henry Roediger, III, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Caren Rotello, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States

Benjamin Rottman, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, United States

Christoph Scheepers, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Brandon Schmeichel, PhD
Texas A&M University, United States

Juliana Schroeder
University of California, Berkeley, United States

Norbert Schwarz, PhD
University of Southern California, United States

Lisa Scott, PhD
University of Florida, United States

Brent Small, PhD
University of South Florida, United States

Salvador Soto-Faraco
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Aimee E. Stahl, PhD
The College of New Jersey, United States

Jeanine Stefanucci, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Yaacov Trope, PhD
New York University, United States

Joseph Tzelgov, PhD
Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Shaun P. Vecera, PhD
University of Iowa, United States

Timothy J. Vickery, PhD
University of Delaware, United States

Kathleen D. Vohs, PhD
University of Minnesota, United States

Daniel Voyer
University of New Brunswick – Fredericton, Canada

Ed Wasserman, PhD
University of Iowa, United States

John Wixted, PhD
University of California, San Diego, United States

Fei Xu, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, United States

Andrew Yonelinas, PhD
University of California, Davis, United States

Chen-Bo Zhong, PhD
Rotman School of Management, Canada

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center 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 disclose whether or not the materials are available.
• Level 2: Requirement—The article must share materials when legally and ethically permitted (or disclose the legal and/or ethical restriction when not permitted).
• Level 3: Verification—A third party must verify that the standard is met.

Empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General must, at a minimum, meet Level 2 (Requirement) for citation and data and code transparency and 1 (Disclosure) for the remaining 6 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 Science TOP guidelines for details, and contact the editor (Sarah Brown-Schmidt, PhD) with any further questions. APA recommends sharing data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (e.g., APA’s repository on the Open 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.g., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template, ClinicalTrials.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 fundamental aspects of research planning and reporting, the TOP level required by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and a brief description of the journal's policy.

• Citation: Level 2, Requirement—All data, program code, and other methods developed by others must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the references section.
• Data Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether the raw and/or processed data on which study conclusions are based are available and where to access them. If the data cannot be made available, the article states the legal or ethical reasons why they are not available. If you are unable to share the de-identified data due to legal or ethical reasons, this in and of itself is not a barrier to publication in the journal. In such situations, please mention the concern in the cover letter to the editor. The editorial team will consider exceptions to these requirements on a case-by-case basis.
• Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether computer 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. If you are unable to share the de-identified code due to legal or ethical reasons, this in and of itself is not a barrier to publication in the journal. In such situations, please mention the concern in the cover letter to the editor. The editorial team will consider exceptions to these requirements on a case-by-case basis.
• Research Materials Transparency: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether materials described in the method section are available and, if so, where to access them.
• Design and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level 1, Disclosure—The journal encourages the use of the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS).
• Study Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether the study design and (if applicable) hypotheses of any of the work reported was preregistered and, if so, where to access it. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.
• Analysis Plan Preregistration: Level 1, Disclosure—Article states whether any of the work reported preregistered an analysis plan and, if so, where to access it. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.
• Replication: Level 3, Verification—The journal publishes replications and Registered Reports.

Other open science initiatives

• Open Science badges: Not offered
• Public significance statements: Offered
• Author contribution statements using CRediT: Required
• Registered Reports: Published
• Replications: Published

Explore open science at APA.

EDI Efforts

Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes empirical work in the field of experimental psychology that is broad impact. Yet breadth of impact cannot be achieved without addressing the systematic underrepresentation and exclusion of people in science due to their race, ethnicity, language experience, gender identity, sexual identity, disability status, socio-economic status, and country of origin, among other factors. Science is more impactful when it includes a diverse range of experiences and identities, when it embraces a broad and diverse approach to research questions, and when it supports participation of a representative and diverse group of scholars.

We are undertaking a number of efforts to promote equity, inclusion and diversity at the journal. These efforts are a first step and the editorial leadership at the journal will continue to self-evaluate, revise, and improve these efforts. Our initial efforts include:

1. Recruiting six early career psychologists (ECPs) for a paid editorial fellowship program designed “to elevate leadership opportunities for ECPs from historically excluded groups, particularly Black, Indigenous, and other psychologists of color, as well as members from other communities which have been historically excluded from leadership opportunities in research and publishing”.
2. Designing special issues to showcase research from a Diversity Science perspective. The forthcoming special issue “Learning Diversity: How Contexts and Experiences Shape Perceptions Across the Lifespan”, is co-edited by Dr. Rachel Wu and Dr. Sarah Gaither and will “highlight the role that context and other unique experiences play in shaping how it is we see and consider different aspects of diversity across the lifespan (infancy through older adulthood)”. I encourage individuals in our community to propose future special issues to advance and showcase scholarship in the field of experimental psychology through an equity, diversity and inclusion lens.
3. In addition to this special issue, the Journal encourages both empirical and commentary submissions from a Diversity Science perspective.
4. The journal encourages authors to take advantage of the double-masked review option. This option is designed to attenuate biases in the review process, including biases that may come from author and institution prestige, as well as author race, ethnicity and gender, among other factors.
5. Two new article components are aimed to contextualize and communicate the impact of published research. First, we ask authors to include a Constraints on Generality (COG) statement (Simons, Shoda, & Lindsey, 2017). The COG statement will come at the end of each article and is a space for the authors to explain the intended population of interest for the research. Second, we ask authors to include a Public Significance Statement that briefly communicates the importance of the work to the general public.
6. For empirical research articles that report data from participant samples, the methods section should report detailed information about the sample, including where and when the data were collected, and relevant demographic information which may include participant age, race, ethnicity, disability status, and gender. Authors should follow APA guidelines for inclusive language, and report how this demographic information was collected.
7. The journal is adopting new open science policies from an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) perspective. While the journal now requires authors to share de-identified data and code, it is essential to note that from EDI perspective, some participants may not consent to have their data be shared, and some participants may approve of data sharing but only for certain research questions and not others. Some authors may have barriers to engaging in data sharing, and the burdens of data sharing may not be equally distributed. The journal will actively work to support openness in research, while balancing the real constraints that may prevent data sharing. The journal encourages authors who have concerns about data sharing to include a note in their cover letter to start a dialogue about this new requirement. 

The editorial team at JEP: General is committed to supporting a more equitable, inclusive and diverse science. We are taking these steps now, and will evaluate our progress in enhancing equity, diversity, and inclusion at the Journal. The efforts outlined here are a first and imperfect step towards achieving these goals, and we will continue to evaluate our progress along these lines.

References
Simons, D. J., Shoda, Y., & Lindsay, D. S. (2017). Constraints on generality (COG): A proposed addition to all empirical papers. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(6), 1123-1128.