CPJ4.0: Aspirations of a research geek with a thing for applications

It is a cool honor and opportunity to be selected as the fourth editor of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research (CPJ). This is a unique scholarly publication. Sure, it extols the familiar virtues of science and practice. But I like how CPJ puts the accent on practice (notice which goes first in the subtitle, Practice and Research). I recall with ironic delight my first rejection letter from an esteemed scientific journal that claimed to be “applied.” The editor explained that the ideas were original and that the findings were interesting but the paper was just too practitioner-oriented. Evidently in that applied journal it was a fatal mistake to speak to people who apply research in the real world.