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    Shared Knowledge, Shared Value

    Collabra: Psychology is a mission-driven Open Access (OA) journal from the University of California Press that shares not only the research it publishes, but also the value created by the psychology community during the peer-review process.

    Collabra: Psychology has 7 sections representing the broad field of psychology, and a highlighted focus area of “Methodology and Research Practice.”

    1. Cognitive Psychology
    2. Social Psychology
    3. Personality Psychology
    4. Clinical Psychology
    5. Developmental Psychology
    6. Organizational Psychology
    7. Methodology and Research Practice

    The acceptance criterion for Collabra: Psychology is scientific, methodological, and ethical rigor. While Collabra: Psychology editors and reviewers do not attempt to predict a submission’s impact to the field, nor employ any topic bias in accepting articles, they will check for rigorously and transparently conducted, statistically sound, adequately powered, and fairly analyzed research worthy of inclusion in the scholarly record. This focus on more objective acceptance criteria should not be mistaken for a light version of peer review. The bar is set high.

    Collabra: Psychology supports the principles of Open Science, including a mandatory open data policy, and an option for authors to choose open peer review.

    The Collabra Model

    Instead of UC Press retaining all funds generated from the Article Processing Charges which support the journal, our value-sharing and pay-it-forward model allows reviewers and editors to have a say in where the value they add actually goes. Please see the How it Works page for the full story, and/or watch the video below.

    Senior Editorial Team

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    Simine Vazire
    UC Davis
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    Simine Vazire is an associate professor in the social/personality area of the psychology department at University of California, Davis. Her research examines people's self-knowledge of their personality and behavior, and she also does work on research methods. The goal of her research is to understand how much insight people have into factors that influence their own behavior and well-being. Simine Vazire received her Ph.D. from University of Texas, Austin in 2006 and was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis from 2007 to 2014. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2013-14. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. In addition to being a senior editor at Collabra, she is also an associate editor for Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Research in Personality, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Simine blogs on Typepad and is on Twitter at @siminevazire.


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    Rolf Zwaan
    Erasmus University
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    Rolf A. Zwaan is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He rose through the academic ranks from assistant (1994) to full professor (2002) at Florida State University and returned to the Netherlands in 2007. His main research interests include language comprehension, embodied cognition, and, in recent years, meta-psychology. He is a Fellow of APA, APS, and the Society of Text and Discourse. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Acta Psychologic (2010-2014) and is on the editorial board of several journals. His work has been/is being funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, The Dutch Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO), and the European Commission. Rolf Zwaan maintains a widely-read blog, and is active on Twitter at @RolfZwaan.


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    Don Moore