Psychological methods

Psychological Methods is devoted to the development and dissemination of methods for collecting, analyzing, understanding, and interpreting psychological data. Its purpose is the dissemination of innovations in research design, measurement, methodology, and quantitative and qualitative analysis to the psychological community; its further purpose is to promote effective communication about related substantive and methodological issues. The audience is expected to be diverse and to include those who develop new procedures, those who are responsible for undergraduate and graduate training in design, measurement, and statistics, as well as those who employ those procedures in research.

Psychological methods致力于开发和传播收集、分析、理解和解释心理数据的方法。其目的是向心理学界传播研究设计、测量、方法论以及定量和定性分析方面的创新；其进一步目的是促进有关实质性和方法问题的有效沟通。预计受众将是多元化的，包括开发新程序的人员、负责设计、测量和统计方面的本科生和研究生培训的人员，以及在研究中使用这些程序的人员。