This policy explains how Ben Carter Psychology selects, develops, reviews, updates, and presents educational content.
Last updated: August 5, 2026
Editorial Purpose
Our purpose is to publish clear and useful educational content about relationship psychology, dating behavior, attachment, emotional patterns, boundaries, communication, and personal growth.
Content should help readers understand patterns without encouraging manipulation, harassment, retaliation, dependency, surveillance, self-diagnosis, or unsupported conclusions about another person.
Topic Selection
Topics may be selected because they answer recurring reader questions, clarify commonly misunderstood psychological ideas, address potentially harmful relationship advice, or provide practical educational value.
Search interest may help identify questions readers are asking, but search volume alone does not determine what we publish. A topic must also offer enough substance to provide a useful, distinct, and responsible article.
Writing Standards
- Use clear language appropriate for general readers.
- Separate observable behavior from assumptions about motives.
- Avoid treating one sign as proof of attraction, dishonesty, attachment style, personality, or diagnosis.
- Acknowledge reasonable alternative explanations where they materially affect the conclusion.
- Distinguish general education from individualized professional advice.
- Avoid sensational, discriminatory, demeaning, or needlessly gendered claims.
- Explain harmful behavior without automatically excusing it.
- Avoid presenting attachment style as a diagnosis or a complete explanation for every relationship problem.
- Provide practical guidance without encouraging control, punishment, stalking, harassment, or retaliation.
Sources and Evidence
When an article relies on research, clinical terminology, statistics, or established psychological models, we aim to use reliable and relevant sources. Sources may include peer-reviewed research, professional organizations, government health resources, recognized educational institutions, and books written by qualified authors.
A source should support the specific claim for which it is cited. We aim not to describe a general educational article as clinical research, use a study to support conclusions it did not examine, or present correlation as proof of causation.
Not every explanatory or practical statement requires a formal citation. However, specific medical, neurological, scientific, statistical, diagnostic, or treatment-related claims should be supported, accurately represented, or qualified appropriately.
Editorial Review Before Publication
Before publication, material should be reviewed for:
- Factual accuracy and source relevance
- Unsupported certainty about motives, diagnoses, or future behavior
- Potentially harmful, manipulative, or unsafe advice
- Unnecessary gender stereotypes or broad generalizations
- Repetitive, formulaic, or misleading language
- Whether the article provides meaningful value beyond existing content on the website
- Whether the title, introduction, and conclusions accurately represent the article
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Digital tools, including artificial intelligence, may assist with research organization, outlining, language improvement, editing, or identifying areas that require further review.
Artificial intelligence does not replace editorial responsibility. Material should be reviewed by the website publisher before publication for accuracy, clarity, originality, unsupported claims, source relevance, repetition, reader safety, and consistency with this policy.
We do not intentionally publish content solely through an automated process without human review. Responsibility for the final published material remains with Ben Carter Psychology.
Publication Dates and Updates
Articles should display a publication date where the website format allows. A substantial revision may result in an updated date. Minor spelling, formatting, or readability changes may be made without changing the displayed date.
Advertising and Affiliate Independence
Advertising, sponsorships, and affiliate relationships do not determine our psychological explanations or editorial conclusions. Commercial relationships should be disclosed when relevant.
How We Use AI
Some articles on this site are drafted with the help of AI writing tools. Every draft is then edited by a human before publication: claims are checked against the cited sources, unsupported statements are removed, and any research reference that cannot be verified isdeleted rather than kept. No article is published without human review. We do not publish AI-generated text as a finished product, and we do not publish large volumes of articles built from a template.
Updates and Corrections
Articles may be updated to improve clarity, remove unsupported statements, replace broken or unsuitable sources, reflect stronger information, reduce harmful framing, or correct factual errors.
Minor corrections may be made directly. Material factual corrections that significantly change an article’s meaning, advice, or conclusion should be handled according to our Corrections Policy.
Reader Feedback
Readers may report concerns through our Contact page. Please include the article URL, the specific passage, and reliable supporting information when requesting a correction.