About this journal

Psychology & Health promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. The contents include work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention; the individual-health care system interface particularly communication and psychologically-based interventions. The journal publishes original research, and accepts not only papers describing rigorous empirical work, including meta-analyses, but also those outlining new psychological approaches and interventions in health-related fields.

Notice to Authors Wishing to Submit to Psychology & Health

Psychology & Health receives many more manuscripts than we can publish, and so we must select for review those with the highest probability of eventual acceptance. This makes it necessary for us to reject papers that do not receive a high priority score or that are outside of the journal's scope, despite their potential strengths. The following guidelines should be considered prior to submitting a manuscript to Psychology & Health .

• Randomised controlled trials and experimental studies that are pre-registered and test specific hypotheses or highlight specific mechanisms relating physical health and illness
• Prospective or longitudinal studies, ecological momentary assessment studies, registered reports, and registered systematic reviews and meta-analyses
• Evaluation studies of effective public health practice
• Position and guideline papers related to health psychology
• Studies providing credible evidence that can inform practice (for example, this will entail employing a sample with an adequate size and composition; appropriate testing of plausible hypotheses in quantitative studies; thorough or in-depth analysis in qualitative studies)
• Studies that are likely to make a significant novel contribution to theory or methods (i.e., empirical study is based on sophisticated theorising or methodology)
• Studies that demonstrate their importance to health psychology

The following types of manuscripts will be given the lowest priority and most likely not be sent out for review:

• Cross-sectional, descriptive studies without innovative features
• Pilot studies, feasibility studies, and protocol studies
• Studies with sample size too small to detect effects and/or sample unrepresentative or biased
• Studies with unreliable or unvalidated measures
• Studies with inappropriate statistical analyses and analysis not well described and/or unconvincing
• Studies having no control or reference group or inadequate control group
• Studies that do not contain sufficient psychological theory and content
• Studies that are not principally concerned with physical health
• The writing style is unclear and would require extensive revision before it would be suitable for publication.

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EDITORS

Kyra Hamilton

Ryan E. Rhodes

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Mike Antoni - University of Miami, USA

Christopher Armitage - University of Manchester, UK

Cecilia Cheng - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Rebecca Ferrer - National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, USA

Crystal Park  - University of Connecticut, USA

Denise de Ridder  - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sarah Riley  - Massey University, New Zealand

Gareth Treharne - University of Otago, New Zealand

Linda Trinh - University of Toronto, Canada

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Marieke Adriaanse - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Laura Ashley - Leeds Beckett University, UK

Lisa Aspinwall - University of Utah, USA

Lauren Connell Bohen – Brown University, USA

Peter Branney – University of Bradford, UK

Elizabeth Broadbent- University of Auckland, New Zealand

Lisa Buckley – The University of Queensland, Australia

Octavia Calder-Dawe - Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Linda Cameron - University of California, USA

Maria Del Rio Carral - University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Derwin Chan– The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Richard Cooke – University of Liverpool, UK

Neil Coulson - University of Nottingham, UK

Shona Crabb - University of Adelaide, Australia

Nanne de Vries – Maastricht University, Netherlands

Sarah Depaoli – The University of California, USA

Genevieve Dunton – University of Southern California, USA

Tracy Epton – University of Manchester, UK

Catherine Evers - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Eamonn Ferguson - University of Nottingham, UK

Uwe Flick – Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Frederick Gibbons – University of Connecticut, USA

Ally Gibson – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Marleen Gillebaart – Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Brendan Gough - Leeds Beckett University, UK

Martin Hagger - University of California, USA

Thomas Hannan – Griffith University, Australia

David Hevey - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Scott Hofer– University of Victoria, Canada

Jennifer Howell – University of California, USA

Brian Hughes - National University of Ireland, Ireland

Margaret Husted - University of Winchester, UK

Fiona Hutton - Victoria University, New Zealand  

Andrew Jones – University of Liverpool, UK

Evangelos Karademas - University of Crete, Greece

Jacob Keech - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Feng Kong- Shaanxi Normal University, China.

Emily Kothe – Deakin University, Australia

Andrea LaMarre – Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Canada

Heng Li - Southwest University, China

Todd Lucas - Michigan State University, USA

Aleksandra Luszczynska - University of Colorado, USA

Elizabeth Lyons – The University of Texas, USA

Jaclyn Maher – University of North Carolina, USA

Renee E. Magnan – Washington State University, USA

Emma Maynard – University of Portsmouth, UK

Brian McGuire - National University of Ireland, UK

Ilona McNeill - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia  

Gerry Molloy – University of Stirling, UK

Paul Norman - University of Sheffield, UK

Sheina Orbell – University of Essex, UK

Alison Phillips – Iowa State University, USA

Amanda Rebar – Central Queensland University, Australia

Sarah Riley - Massey University, New Zeland 

Martine Robson - Aberystwyth University, Wales 

Wendy Rodgers – University of Alberta, Canada

Valentina Lucia La Rosa - University of Catania, Italy 

Alex Rothman– University of Minnesota, USA

Urte Scholz – University of Zurich, Germany

Ralf Schwarzer - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Benjamin Schuz – University of Bremen, Germany

Sarah Seymour-Smith – Nottingham Trent University, UK

Rachel Shaw - Aston University, UK

Paschal Sheeran - University of Sheffield, UK

Shoshana Shiloh - Tel Aviv University, Israel

Camille Short – University of Adelaide, Australia

Michael Smith - Northumbria University, UK

Falko Sniehotta – University of Newcastle, UK

Christine Stephens - Massey University, New Zealand

Niamh Stephenson - University of New South Wales, Australia

Kelley Strohacker – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Irina Todorova - Northeastern University in Boston, USA

Mark Wetherell - Northumbria University, UK

Chun-Qing Zhang – Sun Yat-sen University, China

Shimin (Jasmine) ZHU – Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong