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Mother–child pretend play
Maternal anxiety and depression is associated with less pretend play in mother-child interactions, which may affect behavioural development. Read here
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Moral injury and the effect on military veterans
Being exposed to experiences that violates one’s moral or ethical code may be associated with adverse mental health outcomes in military veterans. Read here
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Psychological impact of COVID-19: comparing the UK and Germany
Has the COVID-19 pandemic caused a similar psychological impact on people in different countries? A study comparing the UK and Germany has found there may be differences. Read here
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'Doorway effect': when does it happen?
The ‘doorway effect’ claims people may forget things when passing through a doorway. However, this may only occur when under considerable working memory load. Read here
BMC Series Focus Issues
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May: Understanding Mental Health
With Mental Health Awareness Month in May, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on ‘Understanding Mental Health’. We have brought together content to highlight research into understanding and improving mental health.
April: Our Changing Environment
In preparation for Earth Day on 22nd April, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Our Changing Environment, highlighting research from across the journals on climate change, conservation, pollution, and the impact of environmental changes on human health and disease.
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Illness perceptions predict distress in patients with chronic kidney disease
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Maternal anxiety and depression and their associations with mother–child pretend play: a longitudinal observational study
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Psychotherapists’ emotional reactions to patients’ personality trait in personality disorder treatment settings: an exploratory study
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The impact of moral injury on the wellbeing of UK military veterans
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The relationship between social networking addiction and academic performance in Iranian students of medical sciences: a cross-sectional study
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Are women better than men at multi-tasking?
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An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist
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Interventions designed to reduce implicit prejudices and implicit stereotypes in real world contexts: a systematic review
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Evidence-based treatment for Depersonalisation-derealisation Disorder (DPRD)
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Aims and scope
BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.
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Valuable data often go unpublished when they could be helping to progress science. Hence, the BMC Series introduced Data notes, a short article type allowing you to describe your data and publish them to make your data easier to find, cite and share.
You can publish your data in BMC Genomic Data (genomic, transcriptomic and high-throughput genotype data) or in BMC Research Notes (data from across all natural and clinical sciences).
More information about our unique article type can be found on the BMC Genomic Data and BMC Research Notes journal websites.
Announcement
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
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87 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
74 days to first decision for all manuscripts
198 days from submission to acceptance
18 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
1.146 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.875 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
2.8 - CiteScoreUsage
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