We want to work with authors to strengthen good papers, rather than searching for excuses to reject them. While we are completely independent, we were inspired in some of our philosophy and procedures by the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. NAJP is a peer-reviewed journal. Papers may encompass a wide variety of topics, methods, and strategies. However, as a general rule top priority will be given to those papers in which authors have done a good job of ruling out alternative explanations for their conclusions, and demonstrating relevance and interest to a broad audience.
Papers are welcome within each area of psychology and that span more than one.
While Retaining Your Sanity Assume that your paper will draw at least a few negative comments. Rarely do papers sail through the editorial process unscathed. If your paper is initially rejected look at the editor's comments. If there is an invitation to revise and resubmit think of this as an opportunity to make a good paper even better. Generally speaking, reviewer comments are meant to be helpful, but the truth is that some of them are not.