AIMOS2020: Preregistration (in Psychology)

This workshop is aimed at (psychological) researchers that are relatively new to preregistration or who would like to learn more about different options for creating preregistrations. Specifically, this workshop will be divided into two parts: In the first part, I will illustrate what a preregistration is and why it is important that researchers preregister their studies. In the second part, I will guide the participants through the preregistration process and give practical advice. I will present various possible routes for creating preregistrations, focusing on R Markdown (using the prereg package). Furthermore, I will present a new preregistration template that has been developed by members of the American Psychological Association (APA), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the Center for Open Science (COS), and the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), as well as a new preregistration platform provided by my institute (ZPID). Since I would like to work with R Markdown, it would be nice if participants could install R (https://cran.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/#rstudio-desktop, download the free "RStudio Desktop - open source edition").