Sara BowmanCenter for Open Science
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Realigning Incentives:Registered Reports
Norms
CommunalityOpen sharing
UniversalismEvaluate research on own merit
DisinterestednessMotivated by knowledge and discovery
Organized skepticismConsider all new evidence, even against one’s prior work
Quality
Counternorms
SecrecyClosed
ParticularlismEvaluate research by reputation
Self-interestednessTreat science as a competition
Organized dogmatismInvest career promoting one’s own theories, findings
Quantity
Anderson, Martinson, & DeVries, 2007
Anderson, Martinson, & DeVries, 2007
Anderson, Martinson, & DeVries, 2007
Incentives for individual success
are focused on getting it
published, not getting it right
Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, 2012
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ProblemsFlexibility in analysisSelective reporting
Ignoring nullsLack of replication
Sterling, 1959; Cohen, 1962; Lykken, 1968; Tukey, 1969; Greenwald, 1975; Meehl, 1978; Rosenthal, 1979
Design Collect & Analyze Report Publish
PEERREVIE
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Registered Reports
Design Collect & Analyze Report Publish
PEERREVIE
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Great… but how?Stage 1 Registered Report:Intro, Methods, Proposed analyses, Pilot Data (if applicable)
Editorial Triage Manuscript Rejected
Stage 1 Reviewers Invited
In-Principle Acceptance
Stage 2 Reviewers Invited
Stage 2 Registered Report:Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion
Manuscript Rejected
Revision Invited
Manuscript Rejected
Revision Invited
Full manuscript acceptance and publication
Authors conduct study Manuscript withdrawn
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Community-Driven
Who Publishes Registered Reports?
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Special Issue
Level 3 TOP Guidelines: cos.io/top
For Replications
Registered Reports• AIMS Neuroscience• Attention, Perception, &
Psychophysics• Cognition and Emotion• Comprehensive Results in
Social Psychology• Cortex• Drug and Alcohol
Dependence• eLife• Euro Journal of
Neuroscience• Experimental Psychology
• Journal of Accounting Research
• Journal of Business and Psychology
• Journal of Personnel Psychology
• Journal of Media Psychology• Nutrition and Food Science
Journal• Perspectives on Psych.
Science• Royal Society Open Science• Social Psychology• Stress and Health• Work, Aging, and
Retirement
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editors…
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Community-Driven
Incremental Step…
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