This is my last editorial, just before I hand over my duties to Tilo Strobach, the new, incoming editor. It has been a long time. When I took over the editorship of Psychological Research from Peter Frensch in 2009, I didn’t have the slightest idea that it would take 16 years. But time has treated this journal very kindly, and so there wasn’t any obvious reason or occasion to stop. Moreover, many things have changed during the past 16 years, which made my editorial journey both challenging and interesting: the journal itself, its impact on the field, its authors, its readership, the size of the editorial board, the way we write, review, and publish articles, the editorial system, the style of editing it allows and invites, the way the journal is handled by the publisher, and much, much more. As with any change, these changes all have their pros and cons. Johan Cruijff, the legendary Dutch football player once said “ieder nadeel heb zijn voordeel”, which means something like “every disadvantage has its advantage”. The sayings of Cruijff were often sailing between deep wisdom and nonsense, but this one can be taken as the down-to-earth version of the Taoist Yin and Yang principle, according to which opposing forces should not be considered in isolation or decided between, but rather be balanced to achieve the best of all worlds. This, I think, also applies to the many changes that the process of publication in our field has seen—apart from providing a nice conceptual link between the Netherlands, which was my scientific home when I began my editorship, and China, which is my scientific home by now. …
