Journal telescopic statement

Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology ® publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology and emphasizes empirical reports, but 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 (e.g., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that accept place in meaning micro- and macrolevel social contexts.

Topics include, merely 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. However, we as well strongly welcome innovative, theory-driven papers that employ novel methods (eastward.m., biological methods, neuroscience, large-scale interventions, social network analyses, or "big data" approaches).

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

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

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

Submissions may address one type of social relation (e.g., close romantic relationships) or they may accost multiple types of social relation (eastward.g., status within a team and beyond an institution). Submissions may employ one method or multiple methods. Submissions may examine 1 context or multiple contexts (e.yard., countries, developmental period).

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

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

Personality Processes and Individual Differences publishes enquiry on all aspects of personality psychology. Information technology includes studies of individual differences and basic processes in behavior, emotions, coping, wellness, motivation, and other phenomena that reflect personality.

Articles in areas such as personality structure, personality development, and personality assessment are also appropriate to this department of the journal, as are studies of the interplay of culture and personality and manifestations of personality in everyday beliefs.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of the Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology assume no responsibility for statements and opinions avant-garde past the authors of its articles.

Journal highlights

CABS 2018 Academic Journal Guide: Grade iv (pinnacle-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 department, December 2019 (PDF, 85KB)
  • Shinobu Kitayama, editor, JPSP-ASC section, March 2017 (PDF, 30KB)
  • Kerry Kawakami, editor, JPSP-IRGP department, January 2015 (PDF, 16KB)
  • M. Lynne Cooper, editor, JPSP-PPID section, March 2016 (PDF, 30KB)

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Submission Guidelines

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

General submission guidelines

The editorial squad of thePeriodical of Personality and Social Psychology is committed to both transparency and rigor in conducting and reporting research. Nosotros believe that science advances through a cyclical and recursive procedure that includes both (i) a theory-building, exploratory/descriptive stage and (2) a theory-testing, confirmatory phase. Further, nosotros recognize that replication efforts are the function and packet of the science that is empirically valid and socially responsible. We therefore support and encourage inquiry that is informed by both phases. Guided by this overarching philosophy, we set out some concrete submission standards.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Acme) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open up Scientific discipline (Nosek et al. 2015). Effective July 1, 2021, empirical enquiry, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology must at to the lowest degree see the "requirement" level (Level 2) for citation; data, code, and materials transparency; design and assay transparency; and written report and analysis program preregistration. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors take fabricated to comply with the Acme 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 iv.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.two.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study'due south design and its assay were not pre-registered.

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

Data, materials, and code

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

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

For example:

  • All data accept been made publicly bachelor at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
  • Materials and assay code for this study are not bachelor.
  • The code backside this analysis/simulation has been made publicly available at the [repository proper noun] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

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

If an writer has multiple studies, the repository landing folio should clearly identify how to access the specific blazon of information for each study 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, accustomed, or under review papers of data reported in the manuscript. The cover letter should include a complete reference list of these articles as well as a description of the extent and nature of any overlap betwixt the present submission and the previous work.

Commendation standards

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

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

Information set citation example:
Campbell, Angus, and Robert L. Kahn. American National Election
Study, 1948. ICPSR07218v3.
Ann Arbor, MI: Interuniversity
Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.
http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07218.v3

Design and analysis transparency

Authors must attach to the Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) (PDF, 220KB). Come across also the specific section editorials and instructions on information to include in method and results sections. It is particularly 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 tin be a useful tool for making potent theoretical claims. Likewise, preregistration of analysis plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators may reregister prior to conducting the research (e.thousand., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template) via a publicly accessible registry system (east.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

At the aforementioned time, nosotros recognize that in that location may be good reasons to modify a report or assay plan after it has been preregistered, and thus encourage authors to do so when appropriate and so long as all changes are clearly and transparently disclosed in the manuscript.

The periodical also acknowledges that preregistration may not always be appropriate, especially in the exploratory phases of a research project. If authors choose to preregister their research and analyses plans, all documents should be succinct, specific, and targeted, as well every bit anonymized to maintain double-blind peer review.

Articles must state whether or not any work was preregistered and, if and then, where to access the preregistration. Preregistrations must exist bachelor to reviewers; authors may submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material. Links in the method section and the author notation should 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; come across [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study'south assay program was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study was not preregistered.

Whether or not a study is preregistered, thePeriodical 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 (e.g., deciding when to stop data collection, what observations to exclude, what covariates to include, and what analyses to conduct after rather than before seeing the data).

Replication and Registered Reports

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology acknowledges the significance of replication in building a cumulative cognition base of operations in our field. Nosotros therefore encourage submissions that attempt to replicate important findings, particularly research previously published in Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology.

Major criteria for publication of replication papers include (i) theoretical significance of the finding being replicated, (ii) statistical power of the study that is carried out, and (3) 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, pattern, and assay; submissions by researchers other than the authors of the original findings; and attempts to replicate more than ane study of a multi-study original publication.

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

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

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology volition as well publish Registered Reports. Such submissions will consist of a detailed research 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 research will be reviewed and, if approved, should and then be carried out in accord with the proposed programme.

To the extent that the written report is judged to take been competently performed, the newspaper will be accepted (pending any necessary revisions) regardless of the event of the report.

Department submission guidelines

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

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

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

The arrangement compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript against a database of twoscore+ one thousand thousand scholarly documents, too equally content appearing on the open up web.

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

Attitudes and Social Cognition

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

Set manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Clan using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-complimentary linguistic communication (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the seventh edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Attitudes and Social Knowledge Section

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

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

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 information:

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

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

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

Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

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

Starting June xv, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should be prepared according to the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the viith edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes Section

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

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

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

Personality Processes and Individual Differences

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

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

Submit Manuscript to Personality Processes and Individual Differences Section

Richard Lucas
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
Due east Lansing, MI 48824

General correspondence may be directed to the editor'due south office.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences now requires that a cover alphabetic character be submitted with all new submissions.

The embrace letters should:

  • Include the author'south postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number for future correspondence
  • Land 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 department of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; and if and so, place the action editor treatment the previous submission, provide the prior manuscript #, and describe how the present article differs from the previously rejected ane
  • State that the data were collected in a manner consistent with ethical standards for the treatment of human subjects
  • Inform the journal editor of the existence of any published work using the same data (in whole or in function) as was used in the present manuscript; if such publications exist, describe the extent and nature of any overlap between the nowadays submission and the previously published work
  • Mention whatsoever supplemental textile 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 after the references.

Manuscript preparation

Set up manuscripts according to the Publication Transmission of the American Psychological Clan using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-gratis language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual).

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

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, too every bit instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, announced in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Cumulative line numbers must exist included with all submissions.

Masked review policy

The journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The cover alphabetic character should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The showtime page of text should omit this information but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Every effort should be made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB blessing, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.g., Create a View-only 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…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, theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to draw each author's individual contributions to the piece of 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 co-ordinate to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an author contributions argument in the author note of the last article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their private contribution(due south) earlier submission.

CRediT includes 14 correspondent roles, every bit described below:

  • Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
  • Data curation: Management activities to comment (produce metadata), scrub information and maintain research data (including software code, where information technology is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and subsequently reuse.
  • Formal assay: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
  • Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the fiscal support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation procedure, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
  • Methodology: Development or blueprint of methodology; creation of models.
  • Project assistants: 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 assay tools.
  • Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing lawmaking components.
  • Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the enquiry activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
  • Validation: Verification, whether equally a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
  • Visualization: Grooming, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/information presentation.
  • Writing—original typhoon: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial typhoon (including noun translation).
  • Writing—review and editing: Grooming, creation and/or presentation of the published piece of work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or mail service-publication stages.

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

Abstract and keywords

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

References

Listing references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should exist listed in the references section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, Southward. M., & Christiansen, 1000. H. (2019). Language learning every bit linguistic communication use: A cross-linguistic model of child language evolution. Psychological Review, 126(ane), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored volume

Brown, 50. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (second ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited volume

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

Data set citation

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

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, Due west. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), 1–48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/

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

All data, plan code, 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 ane file.

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

For more data nearly acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other effigy issues, please encounter the general guidelines.

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

APA offers authors the choice to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print 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 can be understood in both formats, authors should add together culling diction (e.grand., "the red (nighttime gray) confined 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 colour at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

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

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

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

For example:

  • Level ane: Disclosure—The article must disclose 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 3rd party must verify that the standard is met.

As of July ane, 2021, empirical enquiry, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology must, at a minimum, encounter 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 detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines.

The listing below summarizes the minimal TOP requirements of the periodical. Delight refer to the Center for Open Science TOP guidelines for details, and contact the editors with whatever 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 (eastward.g., 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. There are many available preregistration forms (e.g., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template, ClininalTrials.gov, or other preregistration templates available via OSF). Completed preregistration forms should be posted on a publicly accessible registry system (e.chiliad., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A listing of participating journals is likewise available from APA.

The following list presents the eight central aspects of inquiry planning and reporting, the TOP level required by theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, and a brief description of the periodical's policy.

  • Citation: Level 2, Requirement—All data, plan lawmaking, 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 written report conclusions are based are available and where to access them. If the data cannot be fabricated available, the article states the legal or ethical reasons why they are not bachelor.
  • Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level two, Requirement—Article states whether computer code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is bachelor and where to access information technology. If it cannot exist fabricated 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 available and where to access them. If they cannot be made available, the article states the legal or ethical reasons why they are non available.
  • Design and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level 2, Requirement—Article must comply with APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant and/or MARS) and disclose all decisions that were data-dependent (e.chiliad., deciding when to cease data collection, what observations to exclude, what covariates to include, and what analyses to conduct after rather than before seeing the data).
  • Study Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Commodity states whether the written report pattern and (if applicable) hypotheses of any of the work reported was preregistered and, if and so, where to access information technology. Admission to the preregistration should be available at submission. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental fabric.
  • Analysis Plan Preregistration: Level ii, Requirement—Article states whether any of the piece of work reported was preregistered with an assay program and, if and then, where to access it. Access to the preregistration should be available at submission. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental fabric.

Other open science initiatives

  • Open up Scientific discipline badges: Non offered
  • Public significance statements: Not offered
  • Writer contribution statements using CRediT: Required
  • Registered Reports: Published
  • Replications: Published

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