Preregistration in diverse contexts: a preregistration template for the application of cognitive models.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, open science practices have become increasingly popular in psychology and related sciences. These practices aim to increase rigour and transparency in science as a potential response to the challenges posed by the replication crisis. Many of these reforms-including the increasingly used preregistration-have been designed for purely experimental work that tests straightforward hypotheses with standard inferential statistical analyses, such as assessing whether an experimental manipulation has an effect on a variable of interest. But psychology is a diverse field of research. The somewhat narrow focus of the prevalent discussions surrounding and templates for preregistration has led to debates on how appropriate these reforms are for areas of research with more divers

SUBMITTER: Cruwell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511762 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature