Translational Issues in Psychological Science

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.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Jacklynn Fitzgerald, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word or Open Office format.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7^th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7^th edition are available.

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Jacklynn Fitzgerald, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Translational Affective Neuroscience Lab
Department of Psychology, Marquette University
Cramer Hall
604 N. 16th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
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Manuscripts will be evaluated on the basis of both style and content. Authors must take responsibility for clarity, conciseness, and felicity of expression. Please review Writing for Translational Issues in Psychological Science for more details.

Manuscript details and length

Manuscripts submitted to TPS should be:

• Critical. Manuscripts are intended to be clear and concise, brief overviews of an area fitting to the special issue topic. Authors should focus on a small area of research with broad applications. Manuscripts should be no longer than 18–22 pages, including references.
• Translational. Each manuscript should address the practical implications of the research reviewed. Practical implications include (but are not limited to) those that apply to therapy, prevention, policy, the classroom, and the general public.
• Co-authored by a psychologist in training. Each manuscript needs to be co-authored by a psychologist in training, which is either a student or a postdoctoral scholar, in any order of authorship. We take this to mean the psychologist in training is meaningfully engaged in the writing process, and if applicable, revision process.

Masked review

This journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The cover letter and separate title page should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations and full contact information for the corresponding author. The manuscript should omit author information but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted.

Make sure that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.

Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Author contribution statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.), which 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, Translational Issues in Psychological Science has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share detailed descriptions of diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors are encouraged to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission according to the CRediT 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 re-use.
• 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. Not all roles will be applicable to any particular scholarly work.

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors should review the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. 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;
• 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.

JARS-Qual offer guidance to researchers using qualitative methods that may be used in research designs such as narrative data, grounded theory, phenomenological, critical, discursive, performative, ethnographic, consensual qualitative, case study, psychobiography, and thematic analysis approaches. These JARS:

• guide researchers to include a description of the researchers’ backgrounds and perspectives in approaching the study and how their prior understandings of the phenomenon were managed;
• provide guidance to support a description of all recruitment and data selection processes as well as data collection and data-analytic strategies used; and
• encourage a discussion of the ways that procedures used enhanced or compromised the methodological integrity of the findings.

The guidelines focus on transparency in methods reporting, recommending descriptions of how the researchers’ own perspectives affected the study, as well as the contexts in which the research and analysis took place.

JARS-Mixed offer guidance to researchers using both quantitative and qualitative methods within a study. These JARS:

• guide authors to follow the set of JARS that is appropriate for each component of the study; and
• guide authors to explicitly discuss the value of using a mixed method approach through the reporting of study aims, methods, findings, and discussion.

The standards 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.

Authors should also review the new Journal Article Reporting Standards for Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (JARS–REC). Meant for all authors, regardless of research topic, JARS–REC include standards for all stages of research and manuscript writing, on, for example:

• Using the title, abstract, and keywords to identify race and ethnicity of participants without signaling Whiteness as default;
• Discussing the applicability of the theoretical approach to populations for which it was not developed;
• Addressing limits on generality, recognizing that generalizability is always constrained and is not the primary purpose of every study; and
• Considering whether findings could be misused to cause harm to members of historically excluded groups.

For more, see the Guidance for Authors sections of the table (PDF, 184KB).

Cover letter

The cover letter should include a statement that the findings reported in the manuscript have not been previously published and that the manuscript is not being simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The cover letter should also indicate that original research procedures were consistent with the principles of research ethics, published by APA, except as may be detailed in the manuscript.

Manuscript preparation

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article. Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th or 7th edition). Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 3 of the 6th edition or Chapter 5 of the 7th edition).

Formatting

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.

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

Display equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:

• Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
• Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.

If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.

Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

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 online supplemental material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.

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.

Academic writing and English language editing services

Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support prior to submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors.

Please note that APA does not endorse or take responsibility for the service providers listed. It is strictly a referral service.

Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

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.

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 TPS are required to provide two to three brief sentences regarding the public significance of the study's/article's findings. This text should summarize the article's findings and describe how they are important in solving psychological or societal problems or advancing new methods and treatments.

The public significance statement should be included within the manuscript on the abstract/keywords page. It should be written in answer to the question "What is the significance of this article for the general public?" in language that is easily understood by both professionals and members of the lay public. You can refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements page to help you write this text.

To be maximally useful, these statements of public significance should not simply be sentences lifted directly from 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 written so as 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.

When an accepted paper is published, these sentences will be boxed beneath the abstract for easy accessibility. All such descriptions also will be published as part of the table of contents, as well as on the journal's web page. This new policy is in keeping with efforts to increase dissemination and usage of psychological science by larger and diverse audiences.

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. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

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

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. 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. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

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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Publication policies

For full details on publication policies, including use of Artificial Intelligence tools, please see APA Publishing 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, 41KB)

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.

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.

Other information

See APA’s Publishing Policies page for more information on publication policies, including information on author contributorship and responsibilities of authors, author name changes after publication, the use of generative artificial intelligence, funder information and conflict-of-interest disclosures, duplicate publication, data publication and reuse, and preprints.

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

Editor

Jacklynn Fitzgerald, PhD
Marquette University, United States

General topics associate editor

Jason S. Frydman, PhD, RDT-BCT, NCSP
Lesley University, United States

Special issue editors

Lisa Diamond, PhD
The University of Utah, United States

Sarah E. Domoff, PhD
University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

Kevin M. King, PhD
University of Washington, United States

Dominic Packer, PhD
Lehigh University, United States

Nick D. Ungson, PhD
Susquehanna University, United States

Special issue associate editors

Sareena Chadha, BA
University of Virginia, United States

Marianne Chirica, MS, LPC
Indiana University, United States

Lauren Girouard-Hallam, MA, MS
University of Louisville, United States

G. Mitchell Mazzone, MA
Hofstra University, United States

Marilyn L. Piccirillo, PhD
University of Washington, United States

Mia Radevski-Perrin, MS
University of Kentucky, United States

Juan Valladares, PhD
Brigham Young University, United States

Katie E. Wyant-Stein, MS
The University of Utah, United States

Yexinyu (Yolanda) Yang, MA
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Editorial board

Samuel F. Acuff, MS
Brown University, United States

Melanie B. Arenson, MS
University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Marianne Chirica, MS, LPC
Indiana University, United States

Grace J. Goodwin, MS
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States

Erica Hobbs, MA
North Carolina State University, United States

Leanna Kalinowski, MA
University of Toronto, Canada

G. Mitchell Mazzone, MA
Hofstra University, United States

Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, PhD
Penn State University, United States

Sara Sims, MA
University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

Yexinyu (Yolanda) Yang, MA
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

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• Bilingualism and Cognition:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, December 2023. This articles in this issue synthesize findings from diverse linguistic populations and techniques to provide compelling evidence that knowing more than one language can benefit learning, health, and social outcomes.

• Digital Media and Children:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2023. This special issue highlight how more nuanced methodological and theoretical approaches to studying children’s digital media use are increasingly necessary to truly understand the role of digital media in children’s lives.

• Mind-Brain-Body Connection:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2023. This special issue highlights the added value of moving from separate mental and physical health care models toward holistic care.

• Translational Research on Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2023. The purpose of this special issue is to present the latest research on translational approaches to studying concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI).

• Psychology and Global Health:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2022. This special issue illustrates how a range of psychological research can advance global health by attending to existing efforts to integrate human and environmental systems to improve global health.

• Psychology and the Pandemic:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2022. This special issue presents a series of articles highlighting the many roles played by psychological factors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Socioecological Approaches to Psychology:

  Special issue of APA’s Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, June 2022. This special issue explores how socioecological approaches can be used to address societal inequity in various domains (e.g., mental and physical health, education, and juvenile justice) with cutting-edge methodological techniques that account for complexity in multilevel systems.

• Psychological Science and Creativity:

  Special issue of APA’s Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, March 2022. This special issue outlines recent trends in translating creativity science to the wild, namely: studying creativity in real-world samples and contexts; applying cognitive psychology and neuroscience perspectives beyond the lab; and understanding the environmental factors that foster creativity.

• The Impact of Race on Psychological Processes:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2021. This special issue focuses on the impact of race and racism on psychological processes, shedding light on how individual, interpersonal, and institutional structures affect racial equity.

• Psychology and Virtual Reality:

  Special issue of APA's Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2021. The articles provide novel research findings and perspectives on the use of Virtual Reality for psychological applications.

• Psychology and the Opioid Epidemic:

  Special issue of APA’s Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2021. This special issue presents state-of-the-art-science with the ultimate goal of increasing access and quality of care for those experiencing opioid-related harms.

• Psychological Science and Public Policy:

  Special issue of APA’s journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2021. This special issue consists of nine articles that highlight how psychological findings in parent-child studies and developmental science can help inform and affect public policy.

• Intersectionality in Psychology:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2020. This special issue introduces the topic of intersectionality and situates this social justice-oriented scholarship in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the racial justice uprisings of 2020, and ongoing debates about psychologists’ role in addressing social problems.

• Research Ethics in Psychological Science:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2020. This special issue highlights some of the emerging ethical issues in psychological research with human participants and provides guidance for students, trainees, and seasoned professionals who are trying to do good science and to do it well.

• Psychology in Higher Education:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2020. The articles in this special issue all seek to understand and ultimately improve higher education pedagogy, policy, and practice.

• Metacognition:

  Metacognition: Its Role in Learning, Development, and Psychological Functioning, special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2020.

• Psychological Science to Reduce and Prevent Health Disparities:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2019. Articles cover research in ameliorating the disparities that burden marginalized communities while taking into consideration the social determinants of health.

• Animal Models as Empirical Foundations for Practice:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2019. Includes articles about animal models of alcohol use disorder, posttraumatic stress, and gambling.

• Psychological Science and Juvenile Justice:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2019. The articles reflect various types of translational research with a common goal: to promote a more developmentally appropriate juvenile justice system that uses evidence-based tools and programs to serve both justice-involved youth and public safety.

• Psychological Perspectives on Refugees and Immigrants:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2019. The issue aims to advance the translation of psychological research into practice and policy by featuring works that focus on psychological processes related to migration, displacement, resettlement, and adaptation.

• Understanding, Using, and Communicating Quantitative Methods:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2018. Themes include methods for assessing people and their behaviors, methodological advancements, and issues in modeling implementation and transparency in reporting standards.

• Emerging Topics in Positive Psychology and Well-Being:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2018. The issue highlights a broad sampling of research programs that are translating positive psychology theory and findings into applied settings and practical results.

• Psychological Perspectives on Understanding Socioeconomic Status and Social Class:

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• Advances in Psychological Research on Marijuana:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2018. The articles illustrate the importance of psychological science for conducting translational research on cannabis use to inform future public discourse, efforts to improve prevention and treatment efforts, research, and policy initiatives.

• Geropsychology:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2017. Includes articles about age stereotypes, elder sexual abuse, mindfulness and cognition, animal models of the aging brain, wellbeing following retirement, and health-related effects of aging.

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  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 3, No. 2, June 2017. Includes articles about crime detection, the trying of cases by both judge and juror, and perceptions of punishment.

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  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2016. The articles focus on traumatic stress and factors related to exposure, response, and treatment.

• Psychological Advances in Social Media:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2016. Includes articles from many areas of psychological science and social media variations.

• Incentives and Motivation:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2016. Includes articles about the use of incentives in health behaviors; academic behaviors; online panels; and workplace behavior and performance.

• The Psychology of Humor:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2016. The articles reflect the topical, disciplinary, and methodological diversity of psychological research on humor as well as a diversity of the translational impacts.

• Prejudice and Discrimination:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 2015. Includes articles about the nature of intergroup biases, the consequences of bias for targets and society, and strategies for intervening and fostering equality of opportunities and outcomes.

• Psychological Advances in Obesity:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 2015. The articles focus on psychological research and how it can help us understand the biological/neurological, environmental, sociocultural, and behavioral contributors to the etiology of obesity.

• How Psychological Science Can Help Improve Our Classrooms:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2015. Includes articles about mnemonics, learning styles, uncertainty, shy children, and peer relations.

• The Science of Sleep:

  Special issue of the APA journal Translational Issues in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2015. Includes articles about sleep and its interaction with and impact on mental and physical health problems; employee behavior and productivity; education; and memory and cognition.

Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

As one of our central missions, this journal aims to elevate and honor the voices of academics, researchers, and practitioners from marginalized social and intersectional identities. In doing so, we seek and promote diverse representation in authors, peer reviewers, and editorial board members from all racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, (dis)ability status, national origin, immigration status, linguistic, and other historically underrepresented groups. This mission is accomplished through both the content of what we publish and unique support we provide graduate students and early career professionals.

1. In our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), we strive to promote and educate on anti-racist and anti-oppressive perspectives and welcome submissions that are grounded in a strengths-based framing that humanize individuals and communities. In addition, our goal is to publish beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) perspectives. We also encourage submissions that use diverse methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Our selection of special issues each year reflects our commitment to promoting the translation and application of psychological science to diverse, pertinent topics, including those related to social justice.
2. As our journal’s mission is to offer a platform for students and early career professionals to develop skills in publishing and the editorial process, we are actively engaged in mentoring the next generation of psychological scholars. In doing so, we strive to promote junior scholar’s perspectives, experiences and work.

Through these actions, we are committed to applying psychological science to the creation of a more equitable and just society.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Impact statements (required)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

Pathways to authorship and editorship

Reviewer mentorship program

This journal encourages reviewers to submit co-reviews with their students and trainees. The journal likewise offers a formal reviewer mentorship program where graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from historically excluded groups are matched with a senior reviewer to produce an integrated review.

Other EDI offerings

ORCID reviewer recognition

Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) Reviewer Recognition provides a visible and verifiable way for journals to publicly credit reviewers without compromising the confidentiality of the peer-review process. This journal has implemented the ORCID Reviewer Recognition feature in Editorial Manager, meaning that reviewers can be recognized for their contributions to the peer-review process.

Masked peer review

This journal offers masked peer review (where both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are not known to the other). Research has shown that masked peer review can help reduce implicit bias against traditionally female names or early-career scientists with smaller publication records (Budden et al., 2008; Darling, 2015).

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