Developmental Psychology®

Developmental Psychology^® publishes articles that advance knowledge and theory about development across the life span. The journal includes significant empirical contributions as well as scholarly reviews and theoretical or methodological articles. Studies of any aspect of psychological development are appropriate, as are studies of the biological, social, and cultural factors that affect development.

The journal welcomes not only laboratory-based experimental studies but studies employing other rigorous methodologies, such as ethnographies, field research, and secondary analyses of large data sets. We especially seek submissions in new areas of inquiry and submissions that will address contradictory findings or controversies in the field as well as the generalizability of extant findings in new populations.

Although most articles in this journal address human development, studies of other species are appropriate if they have important implications for human development.

Submissions can consist of single manuscripts, proposed sections, or short reports.

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Editor

Jacquelynne S. Eccles
University of Michigan

Associate Editors

Nameera Akhtar
University of California, Santa Cruz

Margarita Azmitia
University of California, Santa Cruz

Neil Berthier
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Christy M. Buchanan
Wake Forest University

Noel A. Card
University of Arizona

Gustavo Carlo
University of Missouri

Eric F. Dubow
Bowling Green State University and University of Michigan

Sumru Erkut
Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College

David C. Geary
University of Missouri

Bert Hayslip Jr.
University of North Texas

Paul E. Jose
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

George P. Knight
Arizona State University

Deborah J. Laible
Lehigh University

Shu-Chen Li
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Katherine A. Magnuson
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Catherine McBride-Chang
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Nancy L. McElwain
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stephanie Rowley
University of Michigan

Mark A. Sabbagh
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

David M. Sobel
Brown University

Consulting Editors

Martha E. Arterberry
Colby College

Terry Kit-fong Au
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Jay Belsky
University of California, Davis

Clancy Blair
New York University

Paul Boxer
Rutgers University

B. Bradford Brown
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Marianella Casasola
Cornell University

Him Cheung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Carol McDonald Connor
Florida State University and Florida Center for Reading Research

Pierre Cormier
Université of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Kai S. Cortina
University of Michigan

Lisa J. Crockett
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Robert Crosnoe
University of Texas at Austin

Michael Cunningham
Tulane University

Pamela Davis-Kean
University of Michigan

Rachel Dunifon
Cornell University

Jodi Dworkin
University of Minnesota

Nancy Eisenberg
Arizona State University

Mona El-Sheikh
Auburn University

Mark A. Fine
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Karen L. Fingerman
University of Texas at Austin

Alexandra M. Freund
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Alice Frye
Wellesley College

Elizabeth T. Gershoff
University of Texas at Austin

Susan Graham
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Suzanne E. Graham
University of New Hampshire

Gustaf Gredebäck
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Wen-Jui Han
Columbia University

Sam A. Hardy
Brigham Young University

Daniel Hart
Rutgers University–Camden

Robin Harwood
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration

Ernest V. E. Hodges
St. John's University

Andrea Hussong
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Janet S. Hyde
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Julia Jackson-Newsom
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Justin Jager
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Vikram K. Jaswal
University of Virginia

Charles Kalish
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Loes Keijsers
Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Neal Krause
University of Michigan

Jutta Kray
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Beth Kurtz-Costes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert D. Laird
University of New Orleans

Daniel Lapsley
University of Notre Dame

Tama Leventhal
Tufts University

Jeffrey Liew
Texas A&M University

Monica Luciana
University of Minnesota

Jelani Mandara
Northwestern University

Stuart Marcovitch
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Lori Markson
Washington University in St. Louis

Anne Noonan
Salem State College

Christine McCauley Ohannessian
University of Delaware

John Opfer
Ohio State University

Kätlin Peets
University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Mitchell J. Prinstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brandy A. Randall
North Dakota State University

Karen A. Roberto
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Philip C. Rodkin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mark W. Roosa
Arizona State University

Amanda J. Rose
University of Missouri

Katariina Salmela-Aro
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Laura V. Scaramella
University of New Orleans

Ingrid Schoon
University of London, London, United Kingdom

Sandra Simpkins
Arizona State University

Gregory Smith
Kent State University

Bart Soenens
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Harvey L. Sterns
University of Akron

Kaveri Subrahmanyam
California State University, Los Angeles and Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles

Marie Tisak
Bowling Green State University

Wendy Troop-Gordon
North Dakota State University

Marion K. Underwood
The University of Texas at Dallas

Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Leiden University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
University of Pittsburgh

Yiyuan Xu
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Zheng Yan
State University of New York at Albany

Lise M. Youngblade
Colorado State University

Jeong Jin Yu
Yongmoon Graduate School of Counseling Psychology, Seoul, South Korea

Editorial Manager

Deanna J. Maida

Editorial Assistant

Sarah Kenny

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Submissions

Submit manuscripts electronically via the Manuscript Submission Portal, and mail any other correspondence to the Editor:

Jacque Eccles
Editor, Developmental Psychology
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
PO Box 1248, 426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248

General correspondence may be directed to the Editor's Office.

Length

Manuscripts should be the appropriate length for the material being presented. Manuscripts can vary from 2500–4500 words for a brief report to 10,500 words for a larger research report to 15,000 words for a report containing multiple studies or comprehensive longitudinal studies. Editors will decide on the appropriate length and may return a manuscript for revision before reviews if they think the paper is too long. Please make manuscripts as brief as possible. We have a strong preference for shorter papers.

Facilitating Manuscript Review

In addition to email addresses, please supply mailing addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers. Most correspondence will be handled by email. Keep a copy of the manuscript to guard against loss.

Masked Review Policy

This journal uses masked review for all submissions. Make every effort to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity. The submission letter should indicate the title of the manuscript, the authors' names and institutional affiliations, and the date the manuscript is submitted.

The first page of the manuscript should omit the authors' names and affiliations but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Author notes, acknowledgments, and footnotes containing information pertaining to the authors' identity or affiliations may be added on acceptance.

Methodology

Description of Sample

Authors should be sure to report the procedures for sample selection and recruitment. Major demographic characteristics should be reported, such as sex, age, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and, when possible and appropriate, disability status and sexual orientation. Even when such demographic characteristics are not analytic variables, they provide a more complete understanding of the sample and of the generalizability of the findings and are useful in future meta-analytic studies.

Significance

For all study results, measures of both practical and statistical significance should be reported. The latter can involve either a standard error or an appropriate confidence interval. Practical significance can be reported using an effect size, a standardized regression coefficient, a factor loading, or an odds ratio.

Reliability

Manuscripts should include information regarding the establishment of interrater reliability when relevant, including the mechanisms used to establish reliability and the statistical verification of rater agreement and excluding the names of the trainers and the amount of personal contact with such individuals.

Violent Children
Special Issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 2, March 2003.
Social and Emotional Development
Special Issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 4, July 1998.
Development, Transitions, and Adjustment in Adolescence
Special Issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 4, July 1996.
Sexual Orientation and Human Development
Special Issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 1995.

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