The Journal of Abnormal Psychology® publishes articles on basic research and theory in the broad field of psychopathology and other abnormal behaviors, their determinants, and correlates. The following topics fall within the journal's major areas of focus: psychopathology — its etiology, development, symptomatology, and coursenormal processes in abnormal individualsexperimental studies, with human or animal subjects, relating to disordered emotional behavior or pathologysociocultural effects on pathological processes, including the influence of gender and ethnicitynovel methods developed to measure psychopathological mechanisms Empirical papers with a strong theoretical framework and/or models of computational parameters are particularly encouraged. Theoretical papers of scholarly substance on abnormality may be appropriate if they advance understanding of a specific issue directly relevant to abnormal psychology and fall within the length restrictions of a regular (not extended) article. Case Studies from either a clinical setting or a laboratory will be considered if they raise or illustrate important questions that go beyond the single case and have heuristic value.

在变态心理学杂志发表在精神病理学等异常行为，他们的决定因素，以及相关因素的广阔领域基础研究和理论文章。 以下主题属于该期刊的主要重点领域： 精神病理学-病因，发展，症状学和病程异常个体的正常过程与人或动物有关的实验研究，涉及情绪行为或病理异常社会文化对病理过程的影响，包括性别和种族的影响测量心理病理机制的新方法 特别推荐具有强大理论框架和/或计算参数模型的经验论文。如果有关异常的学术性理论论文能增进对与异常心理学直接相关的特定问题的理解，并且不超出常规（非扩展）文章的篇幅，则可能是适当的。如果临床案例或实验室的案例研究提出或说明了超出单个案例并具有启发式价值的重要问题，则将考虑这些案例研究。

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