Wiseman Richard, Watt Caroline, Kornbrot Diana
Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom.
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
PeerJ. 2019 Jan 16;7:e6232. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6232. eCollection 2019.
The recent 'replication crisis' in psychology has focused attention on ways of increasing methodological rigor within the behavioral sciences. Part of this work has involved promoting 'Registered Reports', wherein journals peer review papers prior to data collection and publication. Although this approach is usually seen as a relatively recent development, we note that a prototype of this publishing model was initiated in the mid-1970s by parapsychologist Martin Johnson in the . A retrospective and observational comparison of Registered and non-Registered Reports published in the during a seventeen-year period provides circumstantial evidence to suggest that the approach helped to reduce questionable research practices. This paper aims both to bring Johnson's pioneering work to a wider audience, and to investigate the positive role that Registered Reports may play in helping to promote higher methodological and statistical standards.
近期心理学领域的“复制危机”已将注意力集中在提高行为科学方法论严谨性的方法上。这项工作的一部分涉及推广“预注册报告”，即期刊在数据收集和发表之前对论文进行同行评审。尽管这种方法通常被视为相对较新的发展，但我们注意到，这种出版模式的原型是由超心理学家马丁·约翰逊在20世纪70年代中期发起的。对17年间发表在[具体期刊名称未给出]上的预注册报告和非预注册报告进行回顾性和观察性比较，提供了间接证据表明该方法有助于减少可疑的研究行为。本文旨在让更广泛的受众了解约翰逊的开创性工作，并探讨预注册报告在帮助提高方法论和统计标准方面可能发挥的积极作用。
