The journal supports transparency and reproducibility in psychological research.
Data availability statement
Every research article ends with a "Data Availability Statement" explaining where and under what conditions the data, measures, materials and analysis code can be accessed, or why they cannot be shared. Examples:
- "The data and analysis code are available on OSF: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/XXXXX."
- "Because participants were assured of confidentiality, the data cannot be shared publicly; anonymized data are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request."
Recommended practices
- Sharing data, materials and code in open repositories that assign persistent identifiers, such as OSF, Zenodo or Harvard Dataverse, and citing the dataset in the reference list
- Registering hypotheses and the analysis plan before data collection (preregistration) and linking the preregistration in the Method section
- Replication studies and studies with null results are also worth publishing; the assessment is based on the quality of the method.
Reporting standards
- Quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies: APA JARS (JARS–Quant, JARS–Qual, JARS–Mixed)
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: PRISMA 2020
- Case reports: CARE
- Randomized controlled trials: CONSORT
Data retention
Authors retain the raw data and analysis files reported in the article for at least five years after publication and make them available to the editors if an ethical or scientific inquiry requires it.
Personal data
Shared datasets are anonymized so that participants cannot be identified and are shared only to the extent permitted by participants' consent (see Ethics Approval and Informed Consent).