Pre-registration in social psychology—A discussion and suggested template
By A. V. Veer, Roger Giner-Sorolla. 2016
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Abstract Pre-registration of studies before they are conducted has recently become more feasible for researchers, and is encouraged by an increasing number of journals. However, because the practice of pre-registration is relatively new to psychological science, specific guidelines for the content of registrations are still in a formative stage. After giving a brief history of pre-registration in medical and psychological research, we outline two different models that can be applied—reviewed and unreviewed pre-registration—and discuss the advantages of each model to science as a whole and to the individual scientist, as well as some of their drawbacks and limitations. Finally, we present and justify a proposed standard template that can facilitate pre-registration. Researchers can use the template before and during the editorial process to meet article requirements and enhance the robustness of their scholarly efforts.
Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Statistics and Probability
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- When Does HARKing Hurt? Identifying When Different Types of Undisclosed Post Hoc Hypothesizing Harm Scientific Progress (2017, background): “A second argument against RHARKing is that researchers can find flexible theories or hypotheses that “predict nearly any pattern of results in nearly any context” (Kerr, 1998, p. 210; see also van ’t Veer & Giner-Sorolla, 2016, p. 4).”