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Psychological Review

Psychological Review

ISSN 0033-295X
eISSN 1939-1471
Open access offered
Published six times, beginning in January
Impact factor 5.7
5-year impact factor 7.4
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Psychological Review ® publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate.

There is no upper bound on the length of Psychological Review articles. However, authors who submit papers with texts longer than 15,000 words will be asked to justify the need for their length.

Psychological Review also publishes Theoretical Notes—commentaries that contribute to progress in a given subfield of scientific psychology. Such notes include, but are not limited to, discussions of previously published articles, comments that apply to a class of theoretical models in a given domain, critiques and discussions of alternative theoretical approaches, and meta-theoretical discourse on theory testing and related topics.

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Navigating the social world: Toward an integrated framework for evaluating self, individuals, and groups.

Abele, Andrea E.; Ellemers, Naomi; Fiske, Susan T.; Koch, Alex; Yzerbyt, Vincent

Rejecting impulsivity as a psychological construct: A theoretical, empirical, and sociocultural argument.

Strickland, Justin C.; Johnson, Matthew W.

A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning.

Oishi, Shigehiro; Westgate, Erin C.

A reward-learning framework of knowledge acquisition: An integrated account of curiosity, interest, and intrinsic–extrinsic rewards.

Murayama, Kou

A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events.

Gerstenberg, Tobias; Goodman, Noah D.; Lagnado, David A.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.

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The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: A critical evaluation of the status quo.

Long, Emily L.; Catmur, Caroline; Bird, Geoffrey

What causes social class disparities in education? The role of the mismatches between academic contexts and working-class socialization contexts and how the effects of these mismatches are explained.

Goudeau, Sébastien; Stephens, Nicole M.; Markus, Hazel R.; Darnon, Céline; Croizet, Jean-Claude; Cimpian, Andrei

The memory and identity theory of ICD-11 complex posttraumatic stress disorder.

Hyland, Philip; Shevlin, Mark; Brewin, Chris R.

Deep rest: An integrative model of how contemplative practices combat stress and enhance the body’s restorative capacity.

Crosswell, Alexandra D.; Mayer, Stefanie E.; Whitehurst, Lauren N.; Picard, Martin; Zebarjadian, Sheyda; Epel, Elissa S.

The double empathy problem: A derivation chain analysis and cautionary note.

Livingston, Lucy A.; Hargitai, Luca D.; Shah, Punit

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