The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a new revolution in psychology, one in which novel questions have been posed, research methods devised, and sub-fields created. It is an exciting time for ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

Nature Communications acknowledges that when assessing application-oriented manuscripts, the level of novelty will likely be below that typically observed in more fundamental work. Instead, the ...

Biomedical research aims to advance our understanding of health and illness and identify ways to prevent, diagnose, treat, and ameliorate diseases. Yet, arguably, not all biomedical research that ...