Question for HPP authors: at a recent discussion on peer review at VSS, junior authors expressed worry about bias in the process (not at HPP but generally). Let us know in replies if you are too, and what you believe could help. We want to hear from you!

#BeyondTheLab 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. Open Access: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001436

Tip for junior authors: Keep your cover letter short. Clarify (1) the fit to the journal’s mission and (2) what kinds of reviewers would be most appropriate. Especially for work that bridges areas, or if the paper could be misread as belonging to a different area than the one you see as central.

Tip for junior authors: Clarifying exclusions increases trust in your work. Distinguish attention checks from outlier removal, justify both, and show how exclusions affect results. Understand that aggressive reaction time trimming can bias results and reduce power. Share all data with clear flags.

📣 New article: Longo & Mackenzie found that, like whole-body posture, isolated hands influence the speed and accuracy of facial emotion judgments, showing that emotion from hands is automatically integrated with facial emotion. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Curious about temporal binding? start with these JEP:HPP papers: Saad, Hemmer, & Musolino (2026), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001370 Chen et al. (2025), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001339 Bart, Wenke, & Rieger (2025), doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001265

#BeyondTheLab 🧠 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001385

#BeyondTheLab 🧠 🧪JEP:HPP publishes research that reaches well beyond the lab. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Tips for junior JEP:HPP authors: Many of the strongest papers we receive ask "when does this effect break?" rather than "does this effect exist?" If you have a robust phenomenon, the next move is finding its boundary conditions.

Come interact with Isabel Gauthier, JEP:HPP Editor, at a VSS workshop on Demystifying Peer review! www.visionsciences.org/peer-review-...

Souza tracked open science adoption in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance over 8 years. Data sharing went from near zero to 88%. Sample size justification hit ~100%. Editorial policy works if you actually enforce it. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... 🧪

📣 New: Dupont et al show phasic alerting speeds up visual processing globally but leaves top-down control and tonic alertness intact. Two experiments using computational modeling untangle these long-conflated signals. Read the full story: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001267; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001344; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001259; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001358; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001357; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001428; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001367; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001257

This post on the APA Style blog includes practical tips for students to identify and thus avoid citing articles from predatory journals. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/predatory-journals

When the visual system extracts regularities from the environment, what coordinate system does it use? doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0... doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

How robust is the large-pupil advantage in visual detection? Turns out, very! Here we show with @cogsci.nl that the effect persists for different stimulus colors, eccentricities, and retinal adaptation-states ✨👀 Check it out in JEP:HPP: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

individual differences are well represented recently in the Journal: doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...; doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

The stats are in for last year: JEP:HPP had a 72% rejection rate in 2025, a time to decision of less than 2 weeks, a total time from submissions to online publication of ~3 months. Consider JEPHPP for your best work! #Perception #CognitivePsychology

Reminder! The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) hosts summaries of what we know vs don't about a host of fascinating issues. All freely available. What a terrific alternative to doomscrolling: learning about (e.g.) The Mind-Body problem, Delusion, or Free Will. oecs.mit.edu

Humans Persistently Devalue AI-Generated Creative Writing psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... do you think disclosing AI use for scientific writing will have the same effect?

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance examined how image memorability and emotional valence influence visual statistical learning across three experiments. Read the Editor’s Choice article: https://bit.ly/4siB2wA @jephpp.bsky.social

📣 New in @jephpp.bsky.social: Xu et al. found humans incidentally learn and adapt to temporal patterns of events, enhancing perception and adaptive reactions in real-world scenarios! 📖 Read the full study: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

"These findings highlight that the negative feeling of being rushed is a key reason why performance efficiency suffers under pressure", doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Probably a rhetorical questions, but I'll add the data anyway: We recently estimated—among other things—adoption of Bayesian analyses across different areas of psychology. The plots show the last 20 years and (rather simple) projections for the next 20 years. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Saad, L., Hemmer, P., & Musolino, J. (2025). Evidence for individual differences in the temporal binding effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Independent effects of valence and memorability in visual statistical learning. Friedman-Oskar, Meital; Sahar, Tomer; Makovski, Tal; Okon-Singer, Hadas. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Thank you to the 2025 IJE cohort who helped improve manuscripts this year via our pre-external review process! Matthew O'Donohue: scholar.google.com.au/citations?us... Marcell Székely: scholar.google.com/citations?hl... Zekun Sun: zekun-sun.github.io

Finally, the 12th issue of the 50th anniversary series (tinyurl.com/ayb66xvs) reviews the JEP:HPP’s policies on research transparency and looks back at all the 27 articles in this series. Thanks everyone for reading and contributing!

In October, our anniversary articles (tinyurl.com/4k642p5x) feature a review by Shapiro and Raymond following on their 1992 original Attentional Blink paper and readers’ perspectives on links between action and perception and drift diffusion modeling. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

As of 2026, JEP:HPP will require authors to explicitly report how they detect or prevent AI contamination. We won’t prescribe the solution - this evolves too fast. Instead, we’ll emphasize transparency and rely on peer review, as for all methodological choices. Questions? Contact the Editor. (2/2)

Online studies have transformed psychology—bringing speed, scale, and diversity. But a growing challenge is bots and AI-generated responses that can threaten the integrity of our science. That's why in 2026, JEP:HPP is making a change to raise awareness about this problem. (1/2)

Our Anniversary series continues! September issue features an invited review from Gordon Logan and readers’ perspectives on ambulatory locomotion and attentional control. Read them all here tinyurl.com/bddz5rmw.

Author tips! 😍 We thought we would start posting tips for increasing the chances of your manuscript satisfying editors and reviewers, starting with one of the most important: theoretical motivation! (1/2)

JEP:HPP research about precrastination covered here: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

The collated special 50th anniversary JEP:HPP edition is now available on the journal’s website tinyurl.com/yc2vxx3t.

All 50th anniversary articles (so far) are here: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

The July 50th Anniversary issue includes a paper about rhythm and another bout music listening - enjoy! psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES...

It’s all about attention in June's 50th anniversary articles tinyurl.com/3ywt8zec! ‪@chris-olivers.bsky.social‬ ‪@sauter.bsky.social‬

In May, our 50th Anniversary series features an invited review from Valenza et al, who trace the legacy of their seminal 1996 article, "Face preference at birth” and a readers’ perspective on perception of relations. tinyurl.com/k2jmtbhw

… a second readers’ perspective in April: Is beauty in the eye of a beholder? Grzywacz writes about how research from JEP:HPP has helped resolve this millennia old question. (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...).

April brings us two more 50th anniversary celebratory readers’ perspectives! First, Oswald reflects on how work published in JEP:HPP helped to diversify the study of human perception and improve outcomes for marginalized groups (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202....

Also in March, in the 50th anniversary series: A readers perspective by Martarelli @corimartarelli.bsky.social and Mast: The long-lasting legacy of early experimental studies in visual mental imagery (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...).

Our 50th Anniversary article series continues! Our March issue features an in-depth authoritative literature review from Zhang @hanzhang.bsky.social, York, and Jonides, Attentional capture by abrupt onsets: Foundations and emerging issues (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...).

Open access article in our February issue: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

1st Readers Perspective in the 50th Anniversary Series! Bernhard Hommel (psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...) highlights how Coles, Gratton, Bashore, Eriksen, & Donchin (1985) (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...) influenced our understanding of human information processing.

50th Anniversary series: February issue features a review from Baruch Fischhoff (psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...) on the legacy of his seminal 1975 JEP:HPP paper "Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty" (psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...).

Our junior editors help identify common issues before manuscripts go out to reviewers. Meet the amazing cohort from 2024! Rafael Román-Caballero @rrarroca.bsky.social tinyurl.com/k3fnxz5w Elinor Abado tinyurl.com/4ccud259 Alice Elizabeth Atkin @westcoastalice.bsky.social tinyurl.com/p9nb7f8u

One key insight from pre-external review: Theoretical impact requires more than stating what we do not know yet, or even making predictions based on prior findings. Tell us what fundamentally depends on your work. What core assumptions or principles would shift based on your results?