Journal information

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General^® publishes articles describing empirical work that is of broad interest or bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology.

The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, mental illness, neuroscience, or computational modeling.

Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary.

Brief reports will also be accepted (up to 3,000 words, excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowledgments, figures, and figure legends, but including the abstract). Brief reports will typically be rejected without review by editors at a higher rate than longer articles and the Journal will only accept the most innovative and significant empirical and theoretical contributions, with a preference for work that impacts more than one area of psychology and, for empirical contributions, demonstrates high reliability of the results.

The journal values the replication and extension of key results within an article when possible, as an excellent means to demonstrate the reliability and generality of results. Internal replication is encouraged even for brief reports, through succinct reporting and/or the use of electronic supplementary materials.

The journal publishes replication articles, including contributions with interdisciplinary appeal that address theoretical debate and/or integration. Replication submissions should include “A Replication of [study citation]” in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract.

The journal also publishes Registered Reports (see below), and commentaries on articles published in JEP: General. Commentaries on articles should be at maximum half the length of the target article.

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