Psychological Assessment®

Psychological Assessment ^® is concerned mainly with empirical research on measurement and evaluation relevant to the broad field of clinical psychology. Submissions are welcome in the areas of assessment processes and methods.

Included are

clinical judgment and the application of decision-making models
paradigms derived from basic psychological research in cognition, personality–social psychology, and biological psychology
development, validation, and application of assessment instruments, observational methods, and interviews

The focus of the journal is the diagnosis and evaluation of psychological characteristics or processes and assessment of the effectiveness of interventions.

Assessment of personality, psychopathological symptoms, cognitive and neuropsychological processes, and interpersonal behavior are all relevant. Methodological, theoretical, and review articles addressing clinical assessment processes and methods will also be considered.

Case studies will be considered if they make unique contributions to clinical psychological assessment. Papers that focus on measurement theory and methods will be considered if specifically focused on issues in clinical assessment.

Psychological Assessment rarely publishes psychometric studies of translations of tests unless the papers also address some conceptual or methodological issue of broader interest to clinical assessment.

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Editor

Cecil R. Reynolds
Texas A&M University

Associate Editors

Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Kent State University

Gwyneth M. Boodoo
GMB Enterprises

Gary L. Canivez
Eastern Illinois University

Michele Cascardi
Montclair State University

Craig L. Frisby
University of Missouri

Antonio E. Puente
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Nathan C. Weed
Central Michigan University

Consulting Editors

Wayne Adams
George Fox University

Vincent C. Alfonso
Gonzaga University

Daniel N. Allen
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Rebecca P. Ang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Paul A. Arbisi
Minneapolis VA Medical Center

Alfredo Ardila
Florida International University

Ruth A. Baer
University of Kentucky

R. Michael Bagby
University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Laurence M. Binder
independent practice, Beaverton, Oregon

Barbara M. Byrne
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

William F. Chaplin
St. John's University

John R. Crawford
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Christine DiStefano
University of South Carolina

Andres De Los Reyes
University of Maryland at College Park

John F. Edens
Texas A&M University

Giselle B. Esquivel
Fordham University

Xitao Fan
University of Macau, China

Richard F. Farmer
Oregon Research Institute

Holmes Finch
Ball State University

Elaine Fletcher-Janzen
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Johnathan D. Forbey
Ball State University

Mauricio Garcia-Barrera
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Carlton S. Gass
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida

Lewis R. Goldberg
Oregon Research Institute

William M. Grove
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus

Kyunghee Han
Central Michigan University

Richard W. Handel
Eastern Virginia Medical School

Stephen N. Haynes
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Bettina B. Hoeppner
Massachusetts General Hospital

Christopher J. Hopwood
Michigan State University

Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr.
Psych Associates of Maryland

Alan S. Kaufman
Yale University School of Medicine

James C. Kaufman
California State University at San Bernardino

Se-Kang Kim
Fordham University

Radhika Krishnamurthy
Florida Institute of Technology

Kwong-Liem Kwan
San Francisco State University

Soonmook Lee
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

Antolin M. Llorente
University of Maryland School of Medicine

David Marcus
Washington State University

David M. McCord
Western Carolina University

Leslie C. Morey
Texas A&M University

Elias Mpofu
University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Augustine Osman
The University of Texas at San Antonio

Steven J. Osterlind
University of Missouri

Steven P. Reise
University of California, Los Angeles

Matthew R. Reynolds
The University of Kansas

John Ruscio
The College of New Jersey

Douglas B. Samuel
Purdue University

W. Joel Schneider
Illinois State University

Martin Sellbom
Australian National University

Mark D. Shermis
The University of Akron

Gregory T. Smith
University of Kentucky

Lisa Ann Suzuki
New York University

Hedy Teglasi
University of Maryland

Auke Tellegen
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus

Deborah J. Tharinger
University of Texas at Austin

Bruce Thompson
Texas A&M University

Susana Urbina
University of North Florida

Lihshing Leigh Wang
University of Cincinnati

Thomas A. Widiger
University of Kentucky

James M. Wood
University of Texas at El Paso

Kevin D. Wu
Northern Illinois University

Dustin B. Wygant
Eastern Kentucky University

Myeongsun Yoon
Texas A&M University

Eric A. Youngstrom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Editorial Coordinator

Angela Clinton

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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.

Submission

Please review the Author(s) Agreement Checklist (PDF, 35KB) to ensure proper submission of your manuscript. Failure to do so can result in the return of the manuscript without review.

In general, manuscripts should be no longer than 35 pages.

Psychological Assessment^® rarely publishes psychometric studies of translations of tests unless the papers also address some conceptual or methodological issue of broader interest to clinical assessment.

In your cover letter, please include the following:

authors' names and affiliations, with a statement that all authors have agreed to authorship in the indicated order
contact information for the corresponding author
whether or not the research was approved by an institutional review board
a statement that there has been no prior publication, or the nature of any prior publication; and
any financial interest in the research

Manuscripts concerned with the development of a new assessment instrument should include a copy of the instrument.

Submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

General correspondence may be directed to the Editor's Office.

Masked Review

This journal has adopted a masked review policy for all submissions. Authors should make every effort to ensure that the manuscript itself contains no clues to their identities. Authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the manuscript. Instead, please include this information in just the cover letter.

Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Brief Reports

Psychological Assessment will review brief reports of research studies in clinical assessment. The procedure is intended to permit the publication of carefully designed studies with a narrow focus or of specialized interest.

An author who submits a brief report must agree not to submit the full report to another journal of general circulation. The brief report should give a clear, condensed summary of the procedure of the study and as full an account of the results as space permits.

The brief report should be limited to 19 manuscript pages (1" margins, size 12 font). This includes the title page, abstract, author note, text, reference list, and any footnotes, tables, and figures. The number of tables and figures should be limited.

The author is encouraged to limit the number of headings within the brief report and to combine headings whenever possible. For example, the Results and Discussion sections can be combined. Also, subheadings under the Method section can often be omitted.

Authors are encouraged but not required to have available an extended report. If one is available, the author note of the brief report should include the following statement:

Correspondence concerning this article (and requests for an extended report of this study) should be addressed to [give the author's full name and address].

Manuscript Preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6^th edition). Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 3 of the Publication Manual).

Review APA's Checklist for Manuscript Submission before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations and tables.

Display Equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:

Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.

If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.

Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

Tables

Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

Submitting Supplemental Materials

APA can now place supplementary materials online, available via the published article in the PsycARTICLES^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

Abstract and Keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 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:
Hughes, G., Desantis, A., & Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028566
Authored Book:
Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chapter in an Edited Book:
Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Figures

Graphics files are welcome if supplied as Tiff, EPS, or PowerPoint files. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file.

The minimum line weight for line art is 0.5 point for optimal printing.

For more information about acceptable resolutions, fonts, sizing, and other figure issues, please see the general guidelines.

When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay

$255 for one figure
$425 for two figures
$575 for three figures
$675 for four figures
$55 for each additional figure

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, for example, test materials (or portions thereof) and photographs of people.

Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 47KB)

Publication Policies

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

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).

Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB)

Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)

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.

Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

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