Periodical scope argument

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

The journal is divided into three independently edited sections.

Attitudes and Social Noesis addresses all aspects of psychology (e.g., attitudes, cognition, emotion, motivation) that take identify in pregnant micro- and macrolevel social contexts.

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

We take papers using traditional social-personality psychology methods. However, we also strongly welcome innovative, theory-driven papers that apply novel methods (east.1000., biological methods, neuroscience, large-calibration 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 all-time empirical outlets in social, behavioral, and biological sciences.

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

Submissions may address i blazon of social relation (e.1000., shut romantic relationships) or they may address multiple types of social relation (e.thou., condition inside a squad and across an institution). Submissions may employ 1 method or multiple methods. Submissions may examine ane context or multiple contexts (due east.g., countries, developmental period).

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

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

Personality Processes and Private Differences publishes research on all aspects of personality psychology. Information technology includes studies of private differences and basic processes in behavior, emotions, coping, health, motivation, and other phenomena that reverberate personality.

Articles in areas such as personality structure, personality development, and personality assessment are besides appropriate to this section of the journal, as are studies of the interplay of civilization and personality and manifestations of personality in everyday behavior.

Disclaimer: APA and the editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology assume no responsibility for statements and opinions advanced past the authors of its articles.

Periodical highlights

CABS 2018 Academic Periodical Guide: Grade four (meridian-ranked)

Announcements

  • APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Peak) 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 Due east. 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, Nov 2021 (PDF, 71KB)
  • Colin Wayne Leach, editor, JPSP-IRGP section, December 2019 (PDF, 85KB)
  • Shinobu Kitayama, editor, JPSP-ASC department, March 2017 (PDF, 30KB)
  • Kerry Kawakami, editor, JPSP-IRGP section, January 2015 (PDF, 16KB)
  • Yard. Lynne Cooper, editor, JPSP-PPID section, March 2016 (PDF, 30KB)

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Submission Guidelines

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

General submission guidelines

The editorial squad of theJournal 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 phase and (ii) a theory-testing, confirmatory phase. Further, we recognize that replication efforts are the role and packet of the science that is empirically valid and socially responsible. Nosotros therefore support and encourage research that is informed by both phases. Guided by this overarching philosophy, nosotros set out some concrete submission standards.

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Meridian) Guidelines by a community working grouping in conjunction with the Heart for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Effective July 1, 2021, empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Periodical of Personality and Social Psychology must at least meet the "requirement" level (Level 2) for citation; information, lawmaking, and materials transparency; design and assay transparency; and study and assay plan preregistration. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors accept made to comply with the Top guidelines.

For example:

  • We report how nosotros determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if whatsoever), 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 Cadre Squad, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.two.1 (Wickham, 2016). This written report'due south design and its analysis were non pre-registered.

Links to preregistrations and data, code, and materials should also be 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 ethical reasons why they are not available. Recommended repositories include APA'due south repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

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

For example:

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

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

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

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Disclosure of prior uses of data

Upon submission of a manuscript, the authors must disembalm whatsoever prior uses in published, accepted, or under review papers of data reported in the manuscript. The cover letter of the alphabet should include a complete reference list of these articles likewise as a description of the extent and nature of any overlap betwixt the present submission and the previous piece of work.

Commendation standards

Upon submission, all data sets, materials, and program code created past others must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the reference department. Such materials should be recognized equally original intellectual contributions and afforded recognition through citation.

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

Data set commendation case:
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 adhere to the Periodical Commodity Reporting Standards (JARS) (PDF, 220KB). See too 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 analysis plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can be a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. As well, preregistration of analysis plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators may reregister prior to conducting the research (due east.g., ClinicalTrials.gov or the Preregistration for Quantitative Inquiry in Psychology template) via a publicly accessible registry system (e.m., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

At the same fourth dimension, we recognize that there may be good reasons to change a written report or analysis plan afterward it has been preregistered, and thus encourage authors to do so when advisable so long as all changes are conspicuously and transparently disclosed in the manuscript.

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

Articles must state whether or not whatever work was preregistered and, if and then, where to access the preregistration. Preregistrations must be bachelor to reviewers; authors may submit a masked re-create via stable link or supplemental material. Links in the method section and the author annotation should be replaced with an identifiable copy on acceptance.

For example:

  • This study's design was preregistered; run into [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This study'due south design and hypotheses were preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This report's analysis plan was preregistered; encounter [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
  • This written report was not preregistered.

Whether or not a report is preregistered, theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology stresses the importance of transparency in reporting and expects researchers to fully disclose in their manuscript all decisions that were information-dependent (east.thou., 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 edifice a cumulative knowledge base of operations in our field. We therefore encourage submissions that attempt to replicate of import findings, especially inquiry previously published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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

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

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

Papers that make a substantial novel conceptual contribution and also incorporate replications of previous findings continue to exist welcome as regular submissions.

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

We recommend that authors initially contact the editor before submitting a Registered Report. The proposed research will be reviewed and, if approved, should then exist carried out in accordance with the proposed plan.

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

Section submission guidelines

Submit manuscripts to the appropriate section editor. Section editors reserve the correct to redirect papers equally appropriate. When papers are judged every bit improve suited for another department, editors ordinarily volition render papers to authors and suggest resubmission to the more appropriate department.

Rejection by one section editor is considered rejection by all; therefore a manuscript rejected by 1 department editor should non 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 organization compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript confronting a database of 40+ million scholarly documents, likewise as content appearing on the open web.

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

Attitudes and Social Knowledge

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

Gear up manuscripts according to the Publication Transmission of the American Psychological Association using the 7thursday edition. Manuscripts may exist copyedited for bias-free language (come across Affiliate five of the Publication Manual). APA Fashion and Grammar Guidelines for the 7th edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Attitudes and Social Cognition Section

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

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

Periodical 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 enquiry manufactures, authors must include the following information:

  • a broad give-and-take on how the authors sought to maximize power in terms of, for example, sample size, improvement of measures, manipulation checks, and other elements every bit applicable. A relevant segment of the paper must be highlighted in yellow;
  • a discussion on the diverseness and inclusiveness (or lack thereof) of the sample. A relevant segment must be highlighted in low-cal bluish; and
  • a discussion on how the reported written report or ready of studies contributes to cumulative theoretical knowledge in psychology. A relevant segment must be highlighted in light green.

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

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

Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

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

Starting June fifteen, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should be prepared co-ordinate to the 7th edition of the Publication Transmission of the American Psychological Clan. APA Style and Grammer Guidelines for the 7th edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes Section

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

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

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

Personality Processes and Private Differences

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

Starting June 15, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should be prepared co-ordinate to the 7thursday edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the seventhursday edition are available.

Submit Manuscript to Personality Processes and Individual Differences Section

Richard Lucas
Department of Psychology
Michigan Country University
East Lansing, MI 48824

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

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences at present requires that a comprehend letter of the alphabet be submitted with all new submissions.

The cover letters should:

  • Include the author's postal accost, eastward-postal service address, phone 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 section of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; and if so, identify the action editor handling the previous submission, provide the prior manuscript #, and describe how the present article differs from the previously rejected one
  • State that the information were collected in a manner consistent with ethical standards for the handling of homo subjects
  • Inform the periodical editor of the existence of any published work using the same data (in whole or in part) as was used in the present manuscript; if such publications exist, draw the extent and nature of any overlap between the present submission and the previously published piece of work
  • Mention any supplemental fabric existence submitting for the online version of the article

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

Manuscript grooming

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the seventh edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (meet Affiliate v of the Publication Transmission).

Review APA's Periodical Manuscript Training Guidelines before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well equally instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, announced in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Mode 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 letter should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The first page of text should omit this information just should include the title of the manuscript and the date information technology is submitted. Every effort should be made to encounter that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approval, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (east.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 (seventh ed.) stipulates that "authorship encompasses…not only persons who do the writing but also those who accept made substantial scientific contributions to a study." In the spirit of transparency and openness, thePeriodical of Personality and Social Psychology has adopted the Correspondent Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual contributions to the piece of work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their various contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors volition exist 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 concluding article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

CRediT includes fourteen contributor roles, as described below:

  • Conceptualization: Ideas; conception or evolution of overarching inquiry goals and aims.
  • Information curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the information itself) for initial use and later on reuse.
  • Formal assay: Awarding of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize report information.
  • Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial 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 design of methodology; cosmos of models.
  • Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the enquiry action planning and execution.
  • Resource: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
  • Software: Programming, software evolution; designing computer programs; implementation of the calculator lawmaking 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 cadre team.
  • Validation: Verification, whether every bit a function of the activeness or split up, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other enquiry outputs.
  • Visualization: Preparation, cosmos and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/information presentation.
  • Writing—original draft: Grooming, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  • Writing—review and editing: Training, creation and/or presentation of the published work past those from the original inquiry group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or postal service-publication stages.

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

Abstract and keywords

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

References

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

Examples of bones reference formats:

Journal article

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

Authored book

Brownish, 50. Southward. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Clan. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, 1000. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, Southward. 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: Practise and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/x.1037/0000119-012

Information set citation

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

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, West. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), 1–48. https://world wide web.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, program lawmaking, and other methods must be appropriately cited in the text and listed in the references section.

Tables

Utilise Discussion's insert table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the tabular array is typeset and may event in errors.

Figures

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

The minimum line weight for line fine art is 0.v signal for optimal printing.

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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 volition appear on both the online (color) and impress (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add culling diction (e.grand., "the reddish (dark gray) bars represent") every bit needed.

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

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

Brandish equations

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In the text of the article

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (Acme) Guidelines by a customs working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). The Tiptop Guidelines embrace 8 fundamental aspects of research planning and reporting that can be followed by journals and authors at three levels of compliance.

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  • Level one: Disclosure—The article must disembalm 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 three: Verification—A tertiary party must verify that the standard is met.

Equally of July 1, 2021, empirical inquiry, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology must, at a minimum, encounter Level 2 (Requirement) for all aspects of inquiry 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. Please refer to the Centre for Open up Science Pinnacle 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 lawmaking via trusted repositories (e.g., APA's repository on the Open up Scientific discipline Framework (OSF)), and APA encourages investigators to preregister their studies and assay plans prior to conducting the research. There are many available preregistration forms (e.one thousand., 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 arrangement (eastward.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

A list of participating journals is also bachelor from APA.

The post-obit list presents the eight fundamental aspects of enquiry planning and reporting, the TOP level required by theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, and a brief description of the periodical'southward policy.

  • Citation: Level 2, Requirement—All data, program code, and other methods developed by others must exist 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 report 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 non available.
  • Analytic Methods (Lawmaking) Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether computer lawmaking or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is available and where to access information technology. If information technology cannot be fabricated bachelor, the article states the legal or upstanding reasons why it is not available.
  • Research Materials Transparency: Level two, Requirement—Article states whether materials described in the Method section are available and where to access them. If they cannot exist fabricated available, the article states the legal or upstanding reasons why they are not available.
  • Design and Analysis Transparency (Reporting Standards): Level 2, Requirement—Article must comply with APA Way Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant and/or MARS) and disclose all decisions that were information-dependent (e.grand., deciding when to stop data drove, what observations to exclude, what covariates to include, and what analyses to conduct subsequently rather than before seeing the information).
  • Study Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether the study design and (if applicable) hypotheses of whatever of the work reported was preregistered and, if then, where to admission information technology. Access to the preregistration should be bachelor at submission. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental cloth.
  • Analysis Programme Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Commodity states whether any of the work reported was preregistered with an assay programme and, if so, where to access it. Admission to the preregistration should be bachelor at submission. Authors must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental fabric.

Other open science initiatives

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

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