Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Melody Wiseheart, 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.

Submit Manuscript

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All parts of the manuscript must be available in an electronic format (generic rich text format or Microsoft Word; PDF files are not permitted).

Authors with questions concerning manuscript submission should address these directly to the editorial office.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied is now using a software system to screen submitted content for similarity with other published content. The system compares the initial version of each submitted manuscript against a database of 40+ million scholarly documents, as well as content appearing on the open web. This allows APA to check submissions for potential overlap with material previously published in scholarly journals (e.g., lifted or republished material).

Editor’s Choice

Each issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied will honor one manuscript as the Editor’s Choice.

Selection criteria

The Editor’s Choice article will be selected based on an assessment of the following criteria. In addition to the editor’s own assessment of these criteria, information provided in the peer reviews (numerical ratings and comments) and the AEs’ decision letters will be used as data for selection.

• Diversity: Does the study advance our understanding of how legal institutions and policymakers should work with and treat diverse groups of people? Does the study contribute to improving services for underserved populations?
• Innovation: Does the study lead to significantly new knowledge, ask unexamined questions, and/or use highly novel methods to inform policy and legal practice?
• Methodological rigor: Do the methods meet the highest level of methodological rigor for the particular field of study?
• Policy significance/impact: Does the study have significant and direct implications that can change/improve/increase practices in the legal or policy areas?

Selection process

When the editor prepares the table of contents each quarter, the editor will identify the article that they believe best meets the criteria in consultation with the AEs.

Content

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied publishes original empirical investigations in experimental psychology that bridge practical problems and psychological theory.

Review articles may be considered for publication if they contribute significantly to important topics within applied experimental psychology, the primary focus is on original experimental investigations conducted in laboratory or field settings.

While articles on applied questions in perception, memory, decision making, learning, attention, and human performance have traditionally been more prevalent, research from any area of applied experimental psychology is very much welcomed and may include investigations from fields as diverse as abnormal, cognitive, consumer, developmental, educational, forensic, health, human factors, social, organizational, or sport psychology.

Articles may range from reports of multiple experiments to briefer reports of single studies, but they should report methodologically and statistically robust results and offer theoretical and applied insights.

Registered Reports and replications

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied encourages and publishes direct replications and registered reports. Replication submissions should include "A Replication of XX Study" in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract. Authors are encouraged to pre-register replication studies.

Registered Reports require a two-step review process.

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

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

Submissions of manuscripts that overlap with proceedings papers or other types of prior reporting

Researchers in some applied experimental fields present their research at conferences that are accompanied by full proceedings or perhaps result in technical reports. Is it appropriate to submit data or text material that have been published previously in one of these outlets to JEP: Applied for consideration?

Generally there is no concern if the paper has only been published in abstracted form or in a publication with limited circulation or availability (e.g., a laboratory report). However, if the publication was publicly available (e.g., conference proceedings or book chapters) then concerns about duplicate publication arise (APA, 2010, pp. 13–15).

The policy of APA is that duplicate publication should be avoided. If this is potentially an issue the author should carefully read the above section of the Publication Manual before deciding whether it is appropriate to submit the manuscript.

The editor will observe the following policy:

At manuscript submission, all authors are asked if any portions of the data or manuscript have been previously published. If so, they must provide

• the previous publication
• a clear description of how the submitted manuscript differs from that publication

The editor will then decide whether the submission meets the standard of being substantially novel.

Authors must specifically acknowledge in their JEP: Applied paper that portions of the data have been previously published and provide the complete reference. Authors must also make clear which data have been previously published so as to enable subsequent researchers doing a meta-analysis, for example, to differentiate data sets as appropriate.

Masked review policy

Authors have the opportunity to suggest reviewers for their submitted manuscripts as well as to identify reviewers they oppose. Suggested reviewers should have expertise related to the theories and methods used in the submission, but should be free of potential conflicts (for example, have co-authored a paper in the past five years or are current collaborators on a project).

Opposed reviewers should not be chosen simply because they have different theoretical or methodological perspectives relevant to the submitted paper and may disagree with points in the paper. Indeed, such critical reviewers may help strengthen the paper.

Rather, opposed reviewers would be scholars whom the authors believe will be unable to provide a fair and/or professional review of the paper because of a conflict of interest or for similar reasons.

The default review policy for the Journal is unmasked review. However, authors can request a masked review. They should note their preference in a cover letter and make sure that their identity is not revealed elsewhere in the manuscript, including grant numbers, names of institutions providing IRB approval, self-citations, and links to online repositories for data, materials, code, or preregistrations (e.g., Create a View-only Link for a Project).

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

Student review program

In an effort to encourage development of scientific expertise of junior researchers, the Journal maintains a student review program. Reviewers may invite an advanced graduate or postdoctoral student to prepare an independent "parallel" review. Such parallel reviews may be used in addition to (but not as a replacement for) the normal review process.

As appropriate, these reviews will be specially tagged and furnished to the authors. Student reviewers will be acknowledged for their reviews in the Journal at the end of the year. Reviewers should inform the editor at the time of accepting the invitation to review that they wish to involve a student in the review process.

Manuscript preparation

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.

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.

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

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.
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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.

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, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

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

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, as described below:

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

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

Participant description, sample justification, and informed consent

Authors must include a detailed description of the study participants in the method section of each empirical report, including (but not limited to) the following:

• age
• sex
• gender
• racial identity
• ethnicity
• nativity or immigration history
• socioeconomic status
• clinical diagnoses and comorbidities (as appropriate)
• any other relevant demographics (e.g., disability status; sexual orientation)

In both the abstract and in the discussion section of the manuscript, authors must discuss the diversity of their study samples and the generalizability of their findings (see also the constraints on generality section below).

Authors are also encouraged to justify their sample demographics in the discussion section. If Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) or all-White samples are used, authors should justify their samples and describe their sample inclusion efforts (see Roberts, et al., 2020 for more information on justifying sample demographics).

The method section also must include a statement describing how informed consent was obtained from the participants (or their parents/guardians), including for secondary use of data if applicable, and indicate that the study was conducted in compliance with an appropriate Internal Review Board.

Reporting year(s) of data collection

Authors should disclose the year(s) of data collection in both the abstract and in the method section in order to appropriately contextualize the study.

Constraints on generality

In a subsection of the discussion titled "Constraints on generality," authors should include a detailed discussion of the limits on generality (see Simons, Shoda, & Lindsay, 2017). In this section, authors should detail grounds for concluding why the results are may or may not be specific to the characteristics of the participants. They should address limits on generality not only for participants but for materials, procedures, and context. Authors should also specify which methods they think could be varied without affecting the result and which should remain constant.

Public significance statements

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

Examples:

• "We show that skin stretch affects tactile distance perception on the back of the hand with tactile distances being perceived as shorter on stretched than on non-stretched skin. "
• "These findings suggest that auditory training could help remediate difficulties with L2 speech learning in some individuals with auditory deficits, and that auditory testing could help predict which individuals are capable of proficient L2 learning."
• "The results provide evidence that the decision to switch to an alternative task depends not only on the accuracy of the previous trial, but also on the overall error history (i.e., the error probability) of the performed task, and the alternative task."

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

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

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

Please refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements page to help you write this text.

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract of no more than 200 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

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

Data set citation

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

Software/Code citation

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(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/10.21105/joss.01686

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

Figures

Preferred formats for graphics files are TIFF and JPG, and preferred format for vector-based files is EPS. Graphics downloaded or saved from web pages are not acceptable for publication. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file. When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Resolution

• All color line art and halftones: 300 DPI
• Black and white line tone and gray halftone images: 600 DPI

Line weights

• Adobe Photoshop images
  • Color (RGB, CMYK) images: 2 pixels
  • Grayscale images: 4 pixels
• Adobe Illustrator Images
  • Stroke weight: 0.5 points

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ドル for one figure
• An additional 600ドル for the second figure
• An additional 450ドル for each subsequent figure

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors must adhere to 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 planned and unplanned 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.

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

Transparency and openness

APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines by a community working group in conjunction with the Center for Open Science (Nosek et al. 2015). Empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied must at least meet the "requirement" level for all aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in the method section titled "Transparency and Openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the TOP guidelines.

For example:

• We report how we determined our sample size, all data exclusions (if any), all manipulations, and all measures in the study, and the study follows JARS (Applebaum et al., 2018). All data, analysis code, and research materials are available at [stable link to repository]. Data were analyzed using R, version 4.0.0 (R Core Team, 2020) and the package ggplot, version 3.2.1 (Wickham, 2016). This study’s design and its analysis were not pre-registered.

Data, materials, and code

Authors must state whether data and study materials are posted to a trusted repository and how 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’s repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories. Trusted repositories adhere to policies that make data discoverable, accessible, usable, and preserved for the long term. Trusted repositories also assign unique and persistent identifiers.

In a subsection titled "Transparency and Openness" at the end of the method section, specify whether and where the data and materials are available or note the legal or ethical reasons for not doing so. For submissions with quantitative or simulation analytic methods, state whether the study analysis code is posted to a trusted repository, and, if so, how to access it (or the legal or ethical reason why it is not available).
For example:

• All data have been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
• Materials and analysis code for this study are not available [because of legal or ethical reason].

The code behind this analysis/simulation has been made publicly available at the [repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].

Preregistration of studies and analysis plans

Preregistration of studies and specific hypotheses can be a useful tool for making strong theoretical claims. Likewise, preregistration of analysis plans can be useful for distinguishing confirmatory and exploratory analyses. Investigators are encouraged to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting their research via a publicly accessible registry system (e.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network). There are many available templates; for example, APA, the British Psychological Society, and the German Psychological Society partnered with the Leibniz Institute for Psychology and Center for Open Science to create Preregistration Standards for Quantitative Research in Psychology (Bosnjak et al., 2022).

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

For example:

• This study’s design was preregistered prospectively, before data were collected; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s design and hypotheses were preregistered after data had been collected but before analyses were undertaken; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s analysis plan was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study was not preregistered.

Academic writing and English language editing services

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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.

Related Journals of Experimental Psychology

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

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

When one of the editors believes a manuscript is clearly more appropriate for an alternative APA journal, the editor may redirect the manuscript with the approval of the author.

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

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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).

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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.

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

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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.

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Editor

Melody Wiseheart, PhD
York University, Canada

Associate editors

Shana Carpenter, PhD
Oregon State University, United States

Deanna Kuhn, PhD
Columbia University, United States

Carolina Küpper-Tetzel, PhD
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Annie Yixun Li, PhD
The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Francesco Margoni, PhD
University of Stavanger, Norway

Serkan Özel, PhD
Bogazici University, Turkey

Nicolas Pontes, PhD
The University of Queensland, Australia

Kristyn Sommer, PhD
Griffith University, Australia

Yusuke Yamani, PhD
Old Dominion University, United States

Consulting editors

Sharon Arieli, PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Renato F. L. Azevedo, PhD
University of Georgia, United States

Andrew C. Butler, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis, United States

Paulo F. Carvalho, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University

Stephen Charman, PhD
Florida International University, United States

Frank A. Drews, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Adam Feltz, PhD
University of Oklahoma, United States

Jamie Gorman, PhD
Arizona State University, United States

Duygu Gulseren, PhD
York University, Canada

Mary Hegarty, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Mark Huff, PhD
University of Southern Mississippi, United States

Mathew S. Isaac, PhD
Seattle University, United States

Shailendra Jain, PhD
University of Washington, United States

Helen Keyes, PhD
Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom

Ann Y. Kim, PhD
California State University, Long Beach, United States

Mikyoung Lim, PhD
California State University, Fullerton, United States

Jason McCarley, PhD
Oregon State University, United States

Michelle Meade, PhD
Montana State University, United States

Timothy J. Nokes-Malach, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, United States

Thorsten Pachur, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany

Matthew Palmer, PhD
University of Tasmania, Australia

Steven Pan, PhD
National University of Signapore

Kathy Pezdek, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, United States

Jorge Pena-Marin, PhD
Michigan State University, United States

Matthew G. Rhodes, PhD
Colorado State University, United States

Laura Scherer, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz, United States

Jonathan Schooler, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Varsha Singh, PhD
Indian Institute of Technology—Delhi

Miroslav Sirota, PhD
University of Essex, United Kingdom

Jonathan Tullis, PhD
University of Arizona, Untied States

Gijs van Houwelingen, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kathleen Vohs, PhD
University of Minnesota, United States

Jennifer Wiley, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

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Transparency and Openness Promotion

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

For example:

• Level 1: Disclosure—The article must disclose whether or not the materials are posted to a trusted repository.
• Level 2: Requirement—The article must share materials via a trusted repository when legally and ethically permitted (or disclose the legal and/or ethical restriction when not permitted).
• Level 3: Verification—A third party must verify that the standard is met.

Empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied must, at a minimum, meet Level 2 (Requirement) for all aspects of research planning and reporting. Authors should include a subsection in their methods description titled "Transparency and openness." This subsection should detail the efforts the authors have made to comply with the TOP guidelines.

The list below summarizes the minimal TOP requirements of the journal. Please refer to the Center for Open Science TOP guidelines for details, and contact the editor (Melody Wiseheart, PhD) with any further questions. APA recommends sharing data, materials, and code via trusted repositories (e.g., APA’s repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF)). Trusted repositories adhere to policies that make data discoverable, accessible, usable, and preserved for the long term. Trusted repositories also assign unique and persistent identifiers.

We encourage investigators to preregister their studies and analysis plans prior to conducting the research. There are many available preregistration forms (e.g., the APA Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology template, ClininalTrials.gov, or other preregistration templates available via OSF). Completed preregistration forms should be posted on a publicly accessible registry system (e.g., OSF, ClinicalTrials.gov, or other trial registries in the WHO Registry Network).

The following list presents the TOP level required by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and a brief description of the journal's policy.

• Citation: Level 2, Requirement—All data, program code, and other methods developed by others must be cited in the text and listed in the references section.
• Data Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether the raw and/or processed data on which study conclusions are based are posted to a trusted repository and either how to access them or the legal or ethical reasons why they are not available.
• Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether computer code or syntax needed to reproduce analyses in an article is posted to a trusted repository and either how to access it or 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 posted to a trusted repository and either how to access them or the legal or ethical reasons why they are not 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).
• Study Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether the study design and (if applicable) hypotheses of any of the work reported was preregistered and, if so, how to access it. Access to the preregistration must be available at submission. Authors opting for masked review must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.
• Analysis Plan Preregistration: Level 2, Requirement—Article states whether any of the work reported preregistered an analysis plan and, if so, how to access it. Access to the preregistration must be available at submission. Authors opting for masked review must submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.
• Replication: Level 3, Verification—The journal publishes replications and Registered Reports.

Journal equity, diversity, and inclusion statement

JEP Applied is committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in scientific research, in line with the APA Publishing EDI framework .

Broadly, we aim to foster EDI within our internal practices and editorial activities. We aim to disseminate equitable content that is representative of all communities, not just of majority identity persons. We welcome a diverse community of authors, reviewers, and readers. We strive for inclusive science in which the voices of underrepresented researchers and populations are amplified. We hold space and openness to the many dimensions of diversity, including (but not limited to): age, sex, gender identity, racial and ethnic identity, culture, sexual orientation, disability status, socioeconomic status, educational level, and geography.

The journal encourages submissions which extend beyond Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) samples (Henrich, et al., 2010). The journal welcomes submissions which feature Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically marginalized sample populations. The journal particularly welcomes submissions which feature community-based participatory research (CBPR) models (see Collins, et al., 2018) and study designs that address heterogeneity within diverse samples. Studies focused exclusively on BIPOC or other marginalized populations are also welcome.

As an applied journal, we aim to publish research that can be used by a diverse range of stakeholders. To this end, we require statements that will help the reader understand the nature of the sample and limits to generalizability. We require a public significance statement, so that non-academic stakeholders can better understand the research findings and implications.

Inclusive study designs

• Collaborative research models
• Diverse samples
• Registered Reports

Definitions and further details on inclusive study designs are available on the Journals EDI homepage.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Data sharing and data availability statements (required)
• Impact statements (required)
• Year(s) of data collection (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (required)
• Sample justifications (required)
• Constraints on Generality (COG) 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).

Announcements

• APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines
• Call for editorial fellowship nominations
• Special Issue: Risk Perception, Decision Making, and Risk Communication in the Time of COVID-19

Resources

• Reviewer guidelines
• Student review program
• Award-winning articles

Editorial

• Opening editorial, Melody Wiseheart, PhD

Editor Spotlight

• Read an interview with Editor Melody Wiseheart, PhD
• Read an interview with Editor Daniel Morrow, PhD

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