The review process at PSPB: Correlates of interreviewer agreement and manuscript acceptance

Reviewer agreement and the predictors of publication judgments were investi gated for first-submission manuscripts to the Personality and Social Psycho logy Bulletin during a 3 1/2-year period (i.e., one editor's tenure). Among the findings were the following: Reviewers' judgments of manuscripts were multi- rather than unidimensional; reviewer agreement about methodology and overall recommendation was greater among high-prestige than mixed-prestige reviewers; authors with high prestige and authors with low professional ex perience submitted longer manuscripts than their counterparts; author prest ige and text length were positively related to publication judgments of rev iewers and editors; and author gender was related to editor's decisions wit h female authors receiving less favorable decisions than males. The possibl e mediation of these findings and their implications for understanding the peer-review process in personality and social psychology are discussed.