Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
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20438087 | ISSN:
20438087 | Current volume: 15 | Current issue: 1
Frequency: Quarterly
The Journal of Experimental Psychopathology is an open access, peer reviewed journal focused on publishing cutting-edge original contributions to scientific knowledge in the general area of psychopathology.
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The Journal of Experimental Psychopathology is the first peer-reviewed and open access journal dedicated to describing and elucidating the psychological mechanisms that contribute to the development, maintenance and treatment of all forms of psychopathology.
Studies of interest: The journal primarily emphasises studies that use experimental designs and methods and assess cognitive, behavioural, physiological, neural, or self-report measures in humans. Traditional experimental psychopathology studies involve the examination of theoretically-informed mechanisms of psychopathology in laboratory-based research. Illustratively, fear conditioning, extinction and return of fear studies, as well as the role of various cognitive biases in the causation and maintenance of emotional disorders, are among some of the most well-known fields of experimental psychopathology research. The journal encourages manuscripts that report studies of a wide range of experimental psychopathology approaches.
The journal is also interested in manuscripts that address novel directions in experimental psychopathology research. These new directions may include the intersection of experimental psychopathology research and novel approaches to conceptualising psychopathology (e.g., dimensional and hierarchical models), the experimental study of mechanisms via which risk factors lead to different forms of psychopathology, and examining psychological mechanisms as potential targets in novel interventions.
Studies that involve correlational and longitudinal designs, naturalistic settings or animal samples, will only be considered providing it is clear that their aim is to understand the psychological mechanisms that underlie psychopathology in humans. Manuscripts that focus on assessment, psychometric analyses and the description of psychopathology symptoms are not appropriate for this journal. Similarly, studies that primarily focus on independent variables other than psychological variables are not appropriate for this journal (e.g., the effects of diet changes or nutritional supplements on psychopathology).
Populations of interest: Studies of all forms of psychopathology are considered, including those that focus on anxiety-based problems, depression symptoms, schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms, substance use pathology, eating problems, sexual dysfunction and gender identity issues, personality disorders, and childhood psychological problems.
In addition to psychopathology, the journal will consider manuscripts that focus on psychological variables underlying health behaviours and problems associated with psychopathology (e.g., behavioural sleep problems, chronic pain).
In the tradition of experimental psychopathology research, the journal will consider manuscripts reporting studies of underlying psychological mechanisms and processes of psychopathology in healthy, non-clinical populations of adults and youth. Studies that aim to elucidate the psychological and cognitive variables that differentiate clinical/sub-clinical from healthy samples are also considered, as well as those that examine the efficacy of novel interventions in these samples.
Manuscripts of interest: Although empirical studies of underlying mechanisms and processes are the main focus, the journal will consider literature reviews, systematic reviews, theoretical papers and meta-analyses of psychological mechanisms that contribute to psychopathology.
Editor-in-Chief
| Allison M. Waters | Griffith University, Australia |
Associate Editors
| Laurence Claes | University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Tobias Kube | RPTU, Germany |
| Rebecca Lawrence | Griffith University, Australia |
| Faith Orchard | University of Sussex, UK |
| Kate Wolitzky-Taylor | University of California Los Angeles, United States, USA |
Editorial Board
| David Barlow | Boston University, USA |
| Richard Bentall | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Susan Bogels | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Chris Brewin | University College London, UK |
| Michelle Craske | University of California - Los Angeles, USA |
| Tim Dalgleish | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Graham Davey | University of Sussex, UK |
| Peter De Jong | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
| Michel Dugas | Concordia University, Canada |
| Anke Ehlers | Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK |
| Thomas Ehring | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany |
| Daniel Freeman | University of Oxford, UK |
| James Griffith | Northwestern University, USA |
| Allison Harvey | University of California Berkeley, USA |
| Colette Hirsch | Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK |
| Steven Hollon | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Jennie Hudson | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Jorg Huijding | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Philip C Kendall | Temple University, USA |
| Merel Kindt | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Peter Lovibond | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Andrew Mathews | University of California at Davis, USA |
| Peter McEvoy | Curtin University, Australia |
| Dean McKay | Fordham University, USA |
| Douglas Mennin | City University of New York, USA |
| Harald Merckelbach | University of Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| Ann Meulders | University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Karin Mogg | Southampton University, UK |
| Anthony Morrison | University of Manchester, UK |
| Michelle Moulds | University of New South Wales, Department of Psychology, Australia |
| Peter Muris | Maastricht University, the Netherlands |
| Bunmi Olatunji | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Thomas Ollendick | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Lars-Goran Ost | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Allison Ouimet | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| David Penn | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Christine Purdon | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Adam Radomsky | Concordia University, Canada |
| Filip Raes | University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Ron Rapee | Macquarie University, Australia |
| M. Zachary Rosenthal | Duke University, USA |
| John Ruscio | The College of New Jersey, USA |
| Wendy Silverman | Florida International University, USA |
| Nicholas Tarrier | Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK |
| Andrew Tomarken | Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology, USA |
| Cindy Turk | Washburn University, USA |
| Johan Vlaeyen | University of Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| John T Walkup | Cornell University, USA |
| Ed Watkins | University of Exeter, UK |
| Adrian Wells | University of Manchester, UK |
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