''Perspectives on Psychological Science'' is a bimonthly

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. The journal was established in 2006 and the founding editor was Ed Diener (

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). It is currently published by

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on behalf of the

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. Its last

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Klaus Fiedler (

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) resigned on December 6, 2022, after a vote of no confidence by the Board of the

. As of December 1, 2024, its editor-in-chief is Arturo E. Hernandez. The journal is a member of the

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(COPE).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 11.621.

References

External links

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