Yossef Ben-Porath, PhD, of Kent State University, is the incoming editor of
Psychological Assessment
. He intends to preserve the journal's reputation as "the leading outlet for clinically relevant psychological assessment research," while encouraging research on specialized psychological assessments and with understudied populations. He specifically wants to attract more research on clinical assessment in medical and health psychology, forensic evaluations, and personnel screening and selection. Ben-Porath is a professor of psychological sciences at Kent State and has served two terms as associate editor of the journal.
Peter Chen, PhD
, of Auburn University, is the incoming editor of the
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
. He encourages contributors to embrace diversity and interdisciplinary collaboration, with the goal to promote healthy workplaces that foster employees' potential to excel. "The journal has a great opportunity to play an important role in advancing research, influencing practices and informing policies toward improving workers' safety, health and well-being," Chen says. He served as an associate editor of
JOHP
from 2006 to 2010 and is a professor of psychology and department head at Auburn.
M. Lynne Cooper, PhD
, of the University of Missouri–Columbia, is the incoming editor of the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences
. Cooper wants research articles with larger and more diverse samples, and more descriptive research. "One of my goals is to broaden the scope of what we value and define as good scholarship," she says. Cooper is an associate editor of the
American Psychologist
and of
Personality and Social Psychology Review
. She is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Missouri–Columbia.
Barbara H. Fiese, PhD
, is the incoming editor of the
Journal of Family Psychology
. Fiese, who directs the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to highlight four areas of family psychology during her tenure:
- The challenges faced by today's families, such as child-raising difficulties among immigrant families.
- Empirical studies on what makes relationships work.
- Cutting-edge approaches to data analysis, including actor-partner modeling, bootstrapping, use of phantom data and mixed methods.
- Scholarship about the key elements of effective programs in family-based therapy and prevention.
Fiese has been the journal's associate editor since 2009.
Keith Holyoak, PhD
, of the University of California, Los Angeles, is the new editor of
Psychological Review
.
Holyoak, who is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA, aims to continue to publish the best theoretical work across the field. He especially welcomes papers that test new theories. "
Psychological Review
is the best outlet for papers that connect the dots among the wealth of new data being produced, aiming to make sense of it all," he says. "In an era of increased fragmentation of intellectual disciplines, we particularly want to attract papers that cross traditional boundaries within psychology, and also papers that link psychology with other disciplines." Holyoak is an associate editor for
Psychological Science
and for
Cognitive Psychology
.
Siu Oi ling, PhD
, of Lingnan University in Hong Kong, is the new editor of the
International Journal of Stress Management
. Siu encourages stress-intervention studies with an experimental design. She'd like to see scholars from all over the globe contributing research on the best ways to prevent burnout. "Because of the rapidly changing world and technological advancement in modern societies, I think the journal should encourage more sharing of recent stress management research and practices," says Siu, who heads Lingnan's department of applied psychology. Siu has been an editorial board member for IJSM since 2010.
William Ming Liu, PhD
, of the University of Iowa, is the incoming editor of
Psychology of Men and Masculinity
.
Liu plans to encourage more international research and to increase the journal's focus on diversity and multiculturalism. "I hope we can also start deeper explorations of the positive aspects of masculinity, as well as continue our critique of gender," says Liu, a professor of counseling psychology and training director of the counseling psychology program at Iowa. He has been an associate editor of the journal since 2007.
Nadine Weidman, PhD
, of Harvard University, is the incoming editor of
History of Psychology
. She plans to encourage articles on such topics as the history of emotions, the historical connections between psychology and the neurosciences, the history of psychology ethics and the history of the popularization and public understanding of psychology. "I hope to make the journal accessible and interesting reading to a range of people with historical interests," she says. Weidman is on the editorial board of Isis, the journal of the
History of Science Society
. She is a lecturer in the department of history of science at Harvard and an adjunct assistant professor at Boston College.
Thomas Widiger, PhD
, of the University of Kentucky, is the incoming editor of
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
, which debuted in 2010. Widiger plans to continue the work of his predecessor, Carl Lejuez, PhD, who has already made the journal an outlet for leading research on personality disorders. "I am impressed that the journal has [already] done so well," he says. Part of that success is due to the fact that the field of personality disorder research is "replete with theoretical and empirical dispute," but Widiger also emphasizes the vision and skills of the current editor. "The field is attracting many outstanding young investigators, and I hope they will continue to find this journal a welcome home for all of the competing views," he says. Widiger is co-editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, and associate editor for the
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
and the
Journal of Personality Disorders.
— Jamie Chamberlin