About Us
The Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology was founded in 1960 as an organization of researchers interested in multivariate quantitative methods and their application to substantive problems in psychology and related fields. Many distinguished scientists in this field have been active members of SMEP. The society was founded as a small elective body in order to facilitate high level research as well as intensive interaction among members. A key component of our mission is to provide a welcoming community of scholars and to promote diversity across gender, sexual identity, and race/ethnicity in the community of quantitative psychology.
As a scientific society, we adhere to the principle that the diversity of ideas is enhanced through the diversity in our membership. In particular, we affirm the belief that diversity advances the social and behavioral sciences in that it holds the potential for engaging in critical questioning of some of our basic assumptions about human behavior. We strongly encourage the nomination of individuals from underrepresented groups for membership in SMEP and participation in the SMEP annual meetings.
MBR is guided by respected academic publishers, including Wolters Kluwer Health and Psychology Press Ltd., and it benefits from international recognition through major research indexing databases. This dual affiliation reflects the journal’s strength in bridging methodological rigor with substantive applications, ensuring that authors’ work is positioned in a venue known both for technical quality and broad scholarly relevance. MBR has built a reputation as a trusted and respected research journal where methodological contributions are treated with the same importance as applied research, offering authors the confidence that their work will reach an audience that values both innovation and precision.
The journal is the result of the joint effort of a team of Associate Editors and seeks four kinds of contributions:
Regular contributions are research articles that advance or evaluate current quantitative methods. They are judged by their accessibility to a wide audience, potential to change the field, and innovativeness. Regardless of content, they are to include a numerical analysis to showcase the relevance of their contribution.
Software contributions provide an outlet for researchers who implement methods in software to disseminate their work and reach a wide audience. Contributions may consist of the dissemination of a new software program or package, or a major addition to existing software to cover a new area. They are judged by their potential to change the field, breadth, and accessibility.
Tutorials are articles suitable to be employed for teaching. Its purpose is not to present new experimental findings but to teach, guide, or clarify methods, concepts, or analytical techniques for readers.
Quantitative applications provide an outlet for research in any area of the behavioral sciences to publish their work, unconstrained by the quantitative nature of its contribution. It seeks articles that otherwise may be difficult to publish in their substantive fields because the contribution is “quantitative” or too technical in nature. These articles showcase how the proper method can provide novel and potential far-reaching insights into a substantive problem.