Swiss Psychology Open

Swiss Psychology Open (SPO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal for research in psychology. It accepts submissions from all fields of psychology. Its intention is to serve as a forum for the scientific discussion of all areas of psychology and their applications. One of its most central concerns is the mediating function between different fields of psychology, research and applications, and in culturally different areas. SPO publishes research articles, meta-analyses, literature reviews, methods papers, opinion papers and commentaries. It was initially founded by and represents the official journal of the Swiss Psychological Society (SPS). The goal of SPS is to advance and support best practice in psychological science and teaching. SPO has a strong focus on good open research practices and guarantees rigorous peer-review. Hence, authors are encouraged to pre-register their hypotheses and methods and expected to share their anonymized data and analysis scripts in acknowledged public repositories. SPO also offers registered reports as an article format. Registered reports are based on pre-registration and reviewed before data collection. Once in principle acceptance for a registered report is obtained, the researchers can start with data collection, and their study will be published irrespective of the outcome of their study, as long as the methods and interpretation of the data follow those outlined in the registration. The journal is published online as a continuous volume throughout the year. It will also organize special issues which are published within a separate collection page. Special issues generally consist of 6 to 12 publications. All articles are made openly available as soon as they are ready to guarantee timely and barrier-free communication. SPO supports the notion that making research freely available to the public maximises the global exchange of knowledge. Authors of articles published in SPO remain the copyright holders of their work.