Editorial on Case Studies

Editorial Introduction: Ethical Case Studies of Chemistry, Part II

Editorial for special issue on Job Tasks and Labour Studies

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the value of job requirements data for understanding a range of economic outcomes, including the changing composition of employment (characterised in some countries by an asymmetric polarisation), rising earnings inequalities, occupational mobility, and the relationships between technological change, organisational change and workforce skills (...

Editorial: Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with relatively stable prevalence rates estimated at about 0.5–1% (Saha et al., 2005). Schizophrenia is characterized by the occurrence of various psychopathological symptoms that have been described as positive symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), negative symptoms (apathy, lack of motivation, flat affect, poverty of speech, and social withdrawal), disor...

Editorial: Experimental Bias in Electrophysiological Studies

The observation is what it is, a fact, but its interpretation depends on the conceptual framework we are using. This framework is based on what we think we know at time t. Since our understanding of phenomena is constantly evolving, it is not surprising to find numerous examples in science when the most appropriate data interpretation had to wait years/decades following the initial observations...

Editorial Policy for Candidate Gene Studies

The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology receives an increasing number of manuscripts reporting tests of associations of candidate genetic polymorphisms with measures of psychopathology in children and adolescents, including tests of gene-environment interactions. These studies represent the exciting new directions that research in child psychopathology is taking. However, the studies also repr...