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CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Impact Factor p.2 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 2352-250X DESCRIPTION . Excellence paves the way With Current Opinion in Psychology The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In Current Opinion in Psychology, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner: The views of experts on current advances in psychology in a clear and readable form. Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications. The journal is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals and is a companion to the primary research, open access journal, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach to ensure they are a widely-read resource that is integral to scientists' workflows. Division of the subject into sections Current Opinion in Psychology is divided into themed sections, some of which may be reviewed on an annual basis if appropriate. The amount of space devoted to each section is related to its importance. The topics covered will include: * Biological psychology * Clinical psychology * Cognitive psychology * Community psychology * Comparative psychology * Developmental psychology * Educational psychology * Environmental psychology * Evolutionary psychology * Health psychology * Neuropsychology * Personality psychology * Social psychology AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/copsyc 1 Selection of topics to be reviewed Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected. Reviews Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year. Review articles in Current Opinion in Psychology are by invitation only. Editorial Overview Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments. Current Opinion in Psychology builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health. It is a companion to the new Gold Open Access journal Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology and is part of the Current Opinion and Research(CO+RE) suite of journals. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy-of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach-to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow. Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal. Discoverability - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading platform that reaches a vast global audience. Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services. For more information, please refer to: https://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterestPlease contact us if you have ideas for the journal: [email protected] IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 5.717 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . PubMed/Medline Social Sciences Citation Index PsycINFO Google Scholar Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Editors-in-Chief Paul Van Lange, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/copsyc 2 Michael J. Zvolensky, University of Houston Department of Psychology, Houston, Texas, United States of America Editorial Board Jonathan S. Abramowitz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America Gordon Asmundson, University of Regina Department of Psychology, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Erin C. Berenz, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Amit Bernstein, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Herbert Bless, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Robert Böhm, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Julia D. Buckner, Louisiana State University Department of Psychology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America Gian Vittoria Caprara, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Charles Carver, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America Joey Cheng, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Margaret Clark, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America Janine Clarke, Mend Psychology, Oatley, New South Wales, Australia Jan Copeland, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Katja Corcoran, University of Graz, Graz, Austria Eveline Crone, Leiden University Department of Psychologie, Leiden, Netherlands Stacey Daughters, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America Carsten de Dreu, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Nadira Faber, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Klaus Fiedler, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Joe Forgas, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Adam Gonzalez, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America Stefan Hofmann, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Emily A. Holmes, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Gerben van Kleef, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Gun Peggy Knudsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway Lydia Krabbendam, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Frank Krueger, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America Arie Kruglanski, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America Carl Lejuez, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America Michela Lenzi, University of Padua, Padova, Italy Adam M. Leventhal, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Jeffrey Lohr, University of Arkansas Bookstore, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America Lance McCracken, King's College London, London, United Kingdom Harald Merckelbach, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands Batja Mesquita, KU Leuven Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, Leuven, Belgium Mario Mikulincer, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel Melissa Norberg, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Bunmi Olatunji, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America Miranda Olff, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Daniel Paulus, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Séamus Power, University of Copenhagen Department of Psychology, Copenhagen, Denmark Judith Prochaska, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America David G. Rand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America Ronald M. Rapee, Macquarie University Department of Psychology, Sydney, Australia Craig Sawchuk, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America Norman B. Schmidt, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America Carla Sharp, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America Jeffry A. Simpson, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America Jasper A. Smits, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America Matthew T Tull, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America Ayse K. Uskul, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom Kees Van den Bos, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Michael Vasey, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America Anka Vujanovic, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America Denise D. Walker, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America Marieke Wichers, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Junhui Wu, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 1 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/copsyc 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Introduction The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In the Current Opinion journals, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner: (1) The views of experts on current