Motivation and Emotion

Restricciones declaradas

• estudios puramente descriptivos: las desaconseja

  “Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.”

• artículos metodológicos: las desaconseja

  “The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles.”

Exige además, tal como lo registramos

• el desarrollo y validación de escalas puede enviarse si es un prerrequisito necesario para estudios posteriores que demuestren un avance teórico

  “Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.”

• se prefieren medidas objetivas sobre datos exclusivamente de autoinforme, aunque estos últimos son aceptables

  “Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.”

• los estudios con participantes no humanos deben contribuir a teorías sobre el comportamiento humano

  “Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior.”