Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

When submitting to the journal, authors will be asked to answer the questions on the submission questionnaire (PDF, 212KB). The questions are built into the peer review system, so this file does not need to be submitted with the manuscript.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Isabel Gauthier, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word (.docx) Open Office, or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

Dr. Isabel Gauthier, editor
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Vanderbilt University PMB 407817
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37240-7817

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

General correspondence may be directed to the editor.

If you encounter difficulties with submission, please email Magen Speegle.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 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).

In a cover letter, provide the following information:

• a list of 3–5 appropriate reviewers with no conflict of interest
• a list of non-preferred reviewers (no explanation is necessary but is welcomed)

The journal will seek feedback on each manuscript from a member of the board whose expertise is in one or more areas that may be related to your work, but different from the main area(s) of focus for the work. Note that we will not reject otherwise strong papers because of a lack of cross-disciplinary impact, but we do want feedback to help strengthen this aspect of the research published in the journal.

• Please identify in the cover letter at least one area of specialization (more if applicable) that is different from the central focus of your work, and in which your work may have a more distal impact, whether or not the implications are explicitly discussed in the manuscript.

On the first page of the manuscript, provide a word count for the text excluding title, references, author affiliations, acknowledgments, figures and figure legends, and abstract.

To facilitate readability, we encourage authors to include tables, figures and figure legends as appropriate in the manuscript close to where they would appear in the published article (figure captions can be single spaced). When a paper is accepted, a file will need to be promptly submitted that must exactly copy, in all respects and in a single Word file, the complete APA-style printed version of the manuscript.

The journal performs a pre-external review evaluation and authors may receive feedback before a decision whether to send the manuscript out for external review or not is made. Frequent reasons that changes are requested before external review include: 

• The theoretical motivation for the work, and its theoretical impact, are not clearly stated in the introduction and general discussion.
• A case for sufficient a priori power (or precision) for each experiment is not made, in the context of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST).
• Claims are made based on null effects in the context of null hypothesis significance testing. Bayesian statistics can be reported, both alone or in combination with NHST, but the journal does not consider it an acceptable practice to report Bayesian statistics only for null results.
• Effect sizes for all results that are of theoretical importance, regardless of significance, are not included.
• Demographic information is not included for each experiment.

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance publishes direct replications. Submissions should include “A Replication of XX Study” in the subtitle of the manuscript as well as in the abstract.

Graphs and tables should include error bars that are clearly labeled in the figure legend, and tables should also provide clearly labeled measures of variability (the use of confidence intervals is encouraged, and ranges may be more appropriate for small samples).

Editor’s Choice

Each issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance will highlight one article with the designation as an “Editor’s Choice” paper. Selection is based on the recommendations of the associate editors, who consider the following criteria: diversity of authors or participants; innovation; scientific rigor; and likely clinical or public significance or impact. Selected papers will appear in the APA Editor’s Choice newsletter.

Masked review policy

Most papers are reviewed for this journal with author identity visible to reviewers (unmasked review). However, masked reviews are available upon request. Authors seeking masked review should make every effort to ensure that the manuscript contains no clues to author identity, 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).

When requesting masked review, please ensure (1) the cover letter includes all authors' names and institutional affiliations, and (2) the first manuscript page includes only the title of the manuscript and the date of submission.

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

Related Journals of Experimental Psychology

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

• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• 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.

Manuscript preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual).

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

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Display equations

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In online supplemental material

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Tables

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Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 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 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 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Journal Article Reporting Standards

Authors must follow 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.

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). Effective July 1, 2021, empirical research, including meta-analyses, submitted to the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance must at least meet the “requirement” level for all eight aspects of research planning and reporting, except for replication. 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 we follow JARS (Appelbaum 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.

In addition, the journal asks that authors report the year(s) of data collection in the method section.

Authors should also include a statement on the constraints of generality of their findings in the paper. This statement should describe and justify the target population for their work. The statement can appear anywhere in the paper, without any special format or heading.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance is committed to improving equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in scientific research, in line with the APA Publishing EDI framework and APA’s trio of 2021 resolutions to address systemic racism in psychology.

To promote a more equitable research and publication process, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance has adopted the following standards for inclusive research reporting.

Author contribution 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, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 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 the CRediT 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.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role can be attributed to more than one author. Not all roles will be applicable to a particular scholarly work.

Participant description, sample justification, and informed consent

Authors are required to include a detailed description of the study participants in the method section of each empirical report, including at least age and gender.

It is widely recognized that at least some psychological results are correlated with demographics. Thus, this journal follows APA position that basic demographics be provided in a manuscript because without this information the reader would have no basis for knowing to whom to generalize the findings. While researchers may firmly believe this information is not relevant, others may disagree, and future work can find new reasons for secondary exploratory analyses at a later point. Finally, not having this information makes it very difficult to perform and evaluate replications. For all these reasons, without special and strong justification, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance will not accept manuscripts that do not report this information indeed, we make all efforts to catch this before a paper is sent for external review.

Authors are encouraged to include sex and other information such as:

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

Inclusive reference lists

Research has shown that there is often a racial/ethnic and gender imbalance in article reference lists, and that Black women’s work is disproportionately not credited or cited as often as White authors’ work (Kwon, 2022). Authors are encouraged to ensure their citations are fully representative by both gender and racial identity before submitting and during the manuscript revision process. Authors are encouraged to evaluate the race and gender of the authors in their reference lists (see this open-source code by Zhou, et al., 2020, that authors can use to predict the gender and race of the authors in their reference lists) and to report the results in a citation diversity statement in the author note or discussion section of the manuscript.

See Dworkin, et al. (2020)’s sample citation diversity statement:

“Citation Diversity Statement. Recent work in neuroscience and other fields has identified a bias in citation practices such that papers from women and other minorities are under-cited relative to the number of such papers in the field (Caplar et al., 2017, Chakravartty et al., 2018, Dion et al., 2018, Dworkin et al., 2020, Maliniak et al., 2013, Thiem et al., 2018). Here, we sought to proactively consider choosing references that reflect the diversity of the field in thought, gender, race, geography, seniority, and other factors. We used automatic classification of gender based on the first names of the first and last authors (Dworkin et al., 2020, Zhou et al., 2020), with possible combinations including man/man, man/woman, woman/man, and woman/woman. Code for this classification is open source and available online (Zhou et al., 2020). We regret that our current methodology is limited to consideration of gender as a binary variable. Excluding self-citations to the first and last authors of our current paper, the references contain 12.5% man/man, 25% man/woman, 25% woman/man, 37.5% woman/woman, and 0% unknown categorization. We look forward to future work that could help us to better understand how to support equitable practices in science.”

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: Human Perception and Performance 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.

Data, materials, and code

Authors must state whether data, code, and study materials are posted to a trusted repository and, if so, how to access them, including their location and any limitations on use. 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. Recommended repositories include APA’s repository on the Open Science Framework (OSF), or authors can access a full list of other recommended repositories.

In a subsection titled "Transparency and Openness" at the end of the Method section, specify whether and where the data and material will be 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 [trusted repository name] and can be accessed at [persistent URL or DOI].
• Materials and analysis code for this study are not available.
• The code behind this analysis/simulation has been made publicly available at the [trusted 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 the 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 should be replaced with an identifiable copy on acceptance.

For example:

• This study’s design was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s design and hypotheses were preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study’s analysis plan was preregistered; see [STABLE LINK OR DOI].
• This study was not preregistered.

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.

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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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Editor

Isabel Gauthier, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Associate editors

Anthony P. Atkinson, PhD
Durham University, United Kingdom

Sang Chul Chong, PhD
Yonsei University, Korea

Felipe De Brigard, PhD
Duke University, United States

Paul E. Dux, PhD
The University of Queensland, Australia

Chiara Gambi, PhD
Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Nurit Gronau, PhD
Open University of Israel, Israel

Ines Jentzsch, PhD
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Damian Kelty-Stephen, PhD
State University of New York at New Paltz, United States

Iring Koch, PhD
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Liuba Papeo, PhD
CNRS, France

Athanassios Protopapas, PhD
University of Oslo, Norway

Jelena Ristic, PhD
McGill University, Canada

Joel S. Snyder, PhD
University of Nevada, United States

Branka Spehar, PhD
University of New South Wales, Australia

Ranxiao Frances Wang, PhD
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States

Intern junior editors

Matthew P. O’Donohue, PhD
Macquarie University, Australia

Zekun Sun, PhD
Yale University, United States

Marcell Székely, PhD
University of Milan, Italy

Consulting editors

Elkan G. Akyurek, PhD
University of Groningen, Netherlands

Lara Bardi, PhD
CNRS, France

Cristina Becchio, PhD
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Melissa Beck, PhD
Louisiana State University, United States

Stefanie Becker, PhD
University of Queensland, Australia

Jason Bell, PhD
University of Western Australia, Australia

Hazel I. Blythe, PhD
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Marc Brysbaert, PhD
Ghent University, Belgium

Julie M. Bugg, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, United States

Nicolas Burra, PhD
Université de Genève, Switzerland

Nancy Carlisle, PhD
Lehigh University, United States

Caroline Catmur, PhD
King's College, United Kingdom

Yang Seok Cho, PhD
Korea University, Korea

Clara Colombatto, PhD
University College London, United Kingdom

Joshua Correll, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Ruth Corps, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Mario Dalmaso, PhD
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Carolin Dudschig, PhD
Tübingen University, Germany

Susanne Ferber, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada

Hannah L. Filmer, PhD
University of Queensland, Australia

Jaclyn Ford, PhD
Boston College, United States

Sophie Forster, PhD
University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Christian Frings, PhD
University of Trier, Germany

Miriam Gade, PhD
Medical School Berlin, Germany

Nicholas Gaspelin, PhD
University of Missouri, United States

Bradley S. Gibson, PhD
University of Notre Dame, United States

Erin Goddard, PhD
UNSW, Australia

Valerie Goffaux, PhD
UC de Louvain, Belgium

Katie L. H. Gray, PhD
University of Reading, United Kingdom

Ségolène Guérin, PhD
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Lauren V. Hadley, PhD
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Irina M. Harris, PhD
University of Sydney, Australia

Jean-Rémy Hochmann, PhD
Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, France

Bernhard Hommel, PhD
Shandong Normal University, China

Timothy L. Hubbard, PhD
Arizona State University, United States

Amelia R. Hunt, PhD
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Tina Iachini, PhD
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Hee Yeon Im, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Aine Ito, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kevin Jarbo, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University, United States

Luis Jimenez, PhD
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Min-Suk Kang, PhD
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Aytaç Karabay, PhD
New York University and Saadiyat Island, United Arab Emirates

Sachiko Kinoshita, PhD
Macquarie University, Australia

Maria Kozhevnikov, PhD
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Gustav Kuhn, PhD
Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom

Oh-Sang Kwon, PhD
UNIST, South Korea

Mike Le Pelley, PhD
UNSW, Australia

Carly J. Leonard, PhD
University of Colorado Denver, United States

Li Li, PhD
New York University, Shanghai, China

Tobias Meilinger, PhD
University of Tübingen, Germany

Hauke S. Meyerhoff, PhD
University of Erfur, Germany

Jeff O. Miller, PhD
University of Otago, Aotearoa

Jorge Morales, PhD
Northeastern University, United States

Vishnu P. Murty, PhD
Temple University, United States

Jonas Olofsson, PhD
Stockholm University, Sweden

John W. Philbeck, PhD
George Washington University, United States

Thomas S. Redick, PhD
Purdue University, United States

Eva Reinisch, PhD
Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Timothy J. Ricker, PhD
College of Staten Island and City University of New York, United States

Amanda K. Robinson, PhD
University of Queensland, Australia

Irene Ronga, PhD
University of Turin, Italy

E. Glenn Schellenberg, PhD
ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Darryl W. Schneider, PhD
Purdue University, United States

Lisa S. Scott, PhD
University of Florida, United States

Mohinish Shukla, PhD
Università di Padova, Italy

Heida Maria Sigurdardottir, PhD
University of Iceland, Iceland

Marie Louise Smith, PhD
Birkbeck College, United Kingdom

Alessandra S. Souza, PhD
University of Zurich, Switzerland

James Strachan, PhD
Center for Human Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Jie Sui, PhD
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Cynthia Tarlao, PhD
McGill University, Canada

Igor Utochkin, PhD
University of Chicago, United States

Robrecht van der Wel, PhD
Rutgers University, United States

Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, PhD
University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada

Navin Viswanathan, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, United States

Jeffrey B. Wagman, PhD
Illinois State University, United States

Daniel H. Weissman, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

David White, PhD
UNSW Sydney, Australia

Bo Yeong Won, PhD
University of California, Riverside, United States

Geoffrey F. Woodman, PhD
Vanderbilt University, United States

Brad Wyble, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, United States

Naohide Yamamoto, PhD
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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  Special issue of APA's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 43, No. 10, October 2017. The articles demonstrate the links between classic game-changing research and contemporary works.

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: Human Perception and Performance must, at a minimum, meet Level 2 (Requirement) for all eight aspects of research planning and reporting except for replication. 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 (Isabel Gauthier, PhD) with any further questions. Authors must share 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 to share protocols 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, ClinicalTrials.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).

A list of participating journals is also available from APA.

The following list presents the eight fundamental aspects of research planning and reporting, the TOP level required by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 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 available and either where 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 follow the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS-Quant, JARS-Qual, 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 should 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 should submit a masked copy via stable link or supplemental material.
• Replication: Level 1, Disclosure—The journal publishes replications.

Other open science initiatives

• Open Science badges: Not offered
• Public significance statements: Offered
• Author contribution statements using CRediT: Required
• Registered Reports: Not published
• Replications: Published

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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 (recommended)
• Sample justifications (required)
• Constraints on Generality (COG) statements (required)
• Inclusive reference lists (recommended)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

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).

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• APA endorses the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines