Registered Reports and Funding in Consciousness and Religion Research
Channel: Center for Open Science
Date: 2022-06-21

David Mellor, Director of Policy at the Center for Open Science, and Michiel van Elk, Associate Editor of The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion and Associate Professor at Leiden University, lead a webinar providing an overview of the Registered Reports process. They review the purpose, structure, and benefits of Registered Reports to eliminate a variety of questionable research practices, including low statistical power, selective reporting of results, and publication bias, while allowing complete flexibility to report serendipitous findings. Following this review Lara Engelbert, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU Amsterdam, shares her personal experience with the Registered Reports process. Finally, the panelists provide details of funding opportunities to conduct research using the Registered Reports model in both the consciousness and psychology of religion disciplines.