Profile of Psychology Science Quarterly

The topics may deal with every discipline of psychology. The journal emphasizes empirical reports but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers. As there are not so many pertinent journals on the subjects of psychology-specific methods and problems of Statistics, Psychometrics in general, and Psychological Assessment, respectively, papers on these topics are most welcome.

Psychology Science Quarterly publishes papers on recent topics in the following types

Original reports on research results

The editor encourage the submission of empirical contributions related to all disciplines of Psychology. However, emphasis is laid on outstanding approaches to the methodical and statistical design of surveys or experiments and analyses of empirical data. That is to say, we primarily prefer papers with experiments or surveys which are designed according to an
a-priori determined type-I- and type-II-risk, and the relevant effect size responsible for rejecting a given null-hypothesis (cf. Rasch, 2003¹). Especially papers that practise the “use of asterisks” when testing null-hypotheses will not be accepted at all. The practise of determining the type-I-risk a-posteriori does not take the type-II-error into consideration – the existing type-II-risk is not included in the interpretation – nor does it recognize the fact that every a-posterior determination of an attractive, in the sense of a significant result, (minimal) type I-risk nevertheless means that the highest a-priori tolerable type-I-risk is accepted (cf. Rasch, Kubinger, Schmidtke & Häusler, 2004²). There is not at all any objection to submit papers that deliver non significant results, or in other words, do not confirm the assumed hypothesis; this is because their contribution to scientific knowledge might be important as well.

Statistical artifacts

Scientists of psychology and statistics are encouraged to submit papers on the misuse of pertinent approaches to analyzing data.

Review

The editor also aims for review papers submitted as a synthesis of available information in the literature on a specific topic area of actual interest aimed at the solution of some particular research problem in psychology.

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts for review must be submitted electronically, preferable as a doc-file to: psychology-science.psychologie@univie.ac.at. Please take into account that we need for double blind reviewing two versions, one with and one without authors’ personal information.
We presuppose that papers submitted for publication in Psychology Science Quarterly have not been previously published and will not be simultaneously submitted for publication consideration elsewhere, and if accepted for publication, such papers will not be published elsewhere, in any language, without the written consent of the publisher.
Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication by any other print or electronic journal.
The review process is double blind and shall not last more than four weeks upon submission. Once a paper has been accepted it is uploaded onto the Psychology Science Quarterly website in full version as soon as possible.

Preparation of the manuscripts

• Prepare your manuscript according to the style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association www.apastyle.org/. Formatting instructions and instructions on the preparation of tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts appear in the manual. The length of the contribution should depend on its content and considerations of readability and lucidity.
• The journal publishes exclusively in English.

On this note, we look forward to contributions which promote psychology as a science.

Editor in Chief
Klaus D. Kubinger