Academic Journal Editing
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As of January 1, 2024, Tess Neal is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Psychological Association's journal Psychology, Public Policy and Law. She worked with outgoing Editor Michael Lamb on his editorial team for 3 years as an associate editor at the journal before being appointed by APA to become the new editor.
The editorial vision statement written as part of the application process is available here. The associate editors (selected through an open application process) are Tina Zottoli, Jason Chin, Kara Moore, Kat Albrect (2024), and Theresa Silva (2025). Published editorials: Neal, T.M.S. (2025). Inaugural editorial: Reflecting on the past, charting the future. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 31(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000457 Lamb, M.E., Steblay, N.M., & Neal, T.M.S. (2021). Psychology, Public Policy, & Law adopts further open science practices and refreshes the commitment to generalizable empirical research. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 27(3), 293-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000318. |
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Prior to becoming editor of PPP&L, Tess Neal served as an associate editor with the Journal of Personality Assessment for five years.
As part of that work, she co-edited a special issue of the journal on Personality Assessments in Legal Contexts. The entire issue is published as open-access (all the papers are freely available). Introduction to that special issue: Neal, T.M.S., Sellbom, M., & de Ruiter, C. (2022). Personality assessments in legal contexts: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2033248 |
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Meta-Reflections and Improvements for Journal Editing
Howard, A., Neal, T.M.S., Kirtley, O., Urry, H., & Tackett, J.L. (2024). Open science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on progress, lessons learned, and suggestions for continued improvement. Clinical Psychological Science, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026241255882
Silverstein, P., Elman, C., Montoya, A., McGillivray, B., Pennington, C.R., Harrison, C.H., Steltenpohl, C.N., Röer9, J.P., Corker, K.S., Charron, L.M., Elsherif, M., Malicki, M., Hayes-Harb, R., Grischgl, S., Neal, T.M.S., Rhys Evans, R., Karhulahti, V., Krenzer, W.L.D., Belaus, A., Moreau, D., Burn, D.I., Chin, E., Plomp, E., Mayo-Wilson, E., Lyle, J., Adler, J.M., Bottesini, J.G., Lawson, K.M., Schmidt, K., Reneau, K., Vilhuber, L., Waltman, L., Gernsbacher, M.A., Plonski, P.E., Ghai, S., Grant, S., Christian, T., Ngiam, W., & Syed, M. (2024). A guide for social science editors in easing into open science. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5
Silverstein, P., Elman, C., Montoya, A., McGillivray, B., Pennington, C.R., Harrison, C.H., Steltenpohl, C.N., Röer9, J.P., Corker, K.S., Charron, L.M., Elsherif, M., Malicki, M., Hayes-Harb, R., Grischgl, S., Neal, T.M.S., Rhys Evans, R., Karhulahti, V., Krenzer, W.L.D., Belaus, A., Moreau, D., Burn, D.I., Chin, E., Plomp, E., Mayo-Wilson, E., Lyle, J., Adler, J.M., Bottesini, J.G., Lawson, K.M., Schmidt, K., Reneau, K., Vilhuber, L., Waltman, L., Gernsbacher, M.A., Plonski, P.E., Ghai, S., Grant, S., Christian, T., Ngiam, W., & Syed, M. (2024). A guide for social science editors in easing into open science. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5