Prospective submitters of manuscripts are encouraged to read Editor-in-Chief Simine Vazire’s editorial, as well as the editorial by Tom Hardwicke, Senior Editor for Statistics, Transparency, & Rigor, and Simine Vazire.


Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, is the leading peer-reviewed journal publishing empirical research spanning the entire spectrum of the science of psychology. The journal publishes high quality research articles of general interest and on important topics spanning the entire spectrum of the science of psychology. Replication studies are welcome and evaluated on the same criteria as novel studies. Articles are published in OnlineFirst before they are assigned to an issue. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Psychological Science is now included in the Financial Times 50, a list of academic publications used by the Financial Times to assess high-quality research published by researchers from business schools across the world.