December 2018 winners of the Prereg Prize

We are happy to announce the final prize winners as part of our education campaign, the Preregistration Challenge. 

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December 2018 Winners

• "No Missing Link: Knowledge Predicts Acceptance of Evolution in the United States" in BioScience. Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/mvg4n
• "Data sharing and reanalysis of randomized controlled trials in leading biomedical journals with a full data sharing policy: survey of studies published in The BMJ and PLOS Medicine" in The BMJ. Florian Naudet et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/u6hcv
• "A meta‐analysis of the association between substance use and emerging adult development using the IDEA scale" in The American Journal on Addictions. Jordan P. Davis et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/p9ma5
• "Superstars are not necessarily role models: Morality perceptions moderate the impact of competence perceptions on supervisor role modeling" in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Kim Peters, Niklas K. Steffens, & Thekla Morgenroth. Preregistered here: Study 4: https://osf.io/3vzc7
• "Automated verbal credibility assessment of intentions: The model statement technique and predictive modeling" in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Bennett Kleinberg et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/64yfr
• "Due diligence: revisiting the heat-aggression association hypothesis" in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Randy J. McCarthy. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/r48ue
• "A memory-based judgment account of expectancy-liking dissociations in evaluative conditioning" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Frederik Aust, Julia M. Haaf, & Christoph Stahl. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/vnmby/registrations
• "Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior" in Psychological Science. Pieter Van Dessel, Sean Hughes, & Jan De Houwer. Preregistered here: Experiment 4: https://osf.io/w4uy2
• "Depressiveness and Neuroticism in Bartonella Seropositive and Seronegative Subjects—Preregistered Case-Controls Study" in Frontiers in Psychiatry. Jaroslav Flegr, Marek Preiss, & Pavla Balátová. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/agvbj
• "Three‐ to Four‐Year‐Old Children Rapidly Adapt Their Predictions and Use Them to Learn Novel Word Meanings" in Child Development. Naomi Havron et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/f6kem
• "Body mass variability is represented by distinct functional connectivity patterns" in NeuroImage. Jennifer R. Sadler, Grace E. Shearrer, & Kyle S. Burger. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/vtmpw
• "The first direct replication on using verbal credibility assessment for the detection of deceptive intentions" in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Bennett Kleinberg et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/w9qe2
• "Does the Prospect of Fulfilling Belonging Affect Social Responses to Rejection? A Conceptual Replication Attempt" in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Naoyuki Sunami, Megan A. Nadzan, & Lisa M. Jaremka. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/xpr6b
• "I know that I know nothing: Can puncturing the illusion of explanatory depth overcome the relationship between attitudinal dissimilarity and prejudice?" in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Jan G. Voelkel, Mark J. Brandt, & Matteo Colombo. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/etwq9
• "Parents Versus Peers: Assessing the Impact of Social Agents on Decision Making in Young Adults" in Psychological Science. João F. Guassi Moreira et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/5tm48 and https://osf.io/4pvxb
• "Parenting styles moderate how parent and adolescent beliefs shape each other's eating and physical activity: Dyadic evidence from a cross-sectional, U.S. National Survey" in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Richie L. Lenne et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/zvzke
• "Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences" in Cognition. Rohan Kapitány et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/nur5b
• "Are tearful individuals perceived as less competent? Probably not" in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Janis H. Zickfeld et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/3u79y
• "Electrophysiological correlates of the interplay between low-level visual features and emotional content during word reading" in Scientific Reports. Sebastian Schindler, Antonio Schettino, & Gilles Pourtois. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/uf9gh
• "The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence" in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Jim A.C. Everett et al. Preregistered here: Study 3: https://osf.io/dfz2j
• "How would publication bias distort the estimated effect size of prototypic antidepressants in the forced swim test?" in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Ana B. Ramos-Hryb et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7f4dy
• "Socially thermoregulated thinking: How past experiences matter in thinking about our loved ones" in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Hans IJzerman et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/h82um
• "The Dark Triad and framing effects predict selfish behavior in a one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma" in PLoS ONE. Paul Deutchman & Jessica Sullivan. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/aurjt
• "Living “in the zone”: hyperfocus in adult ADHD" in ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders. Kathleen E. Hupfeld, Tessa R. Abagis, & Priti Shah. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ta92r
• "Native Language Promotes Access to Visual Consciousness" in Psychological Science. Martin Maier & Rasha Abdel Rahman. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ke82p
• "Cascade and no‐repetition rules are comparable controls for the auditory frequency mismatch negativity in oddball tasks" in Psychophysiology. Stefan Wiens et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ctx69
• "Threats to national security and public support for integration: the case of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh" in Caucasus Survey. Nicholas Spina. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/6qpgs
• "How interdependent are stay/leave decisions? On staying in the relationship for the sake of the romantic partner" in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Samantha Joel et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/grj9w
• "Adolescent neural responses to antismoking messages, perceived effectiveness, and sharing intention" in Media Psychology. Elissa C. Kranzler et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/fau6y
• "Adaptation aftereffects reveal representations for encoding of contingent social actions" in PNAS. Leonid A. Fedorov et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/tcjpk
• "Moral attitudes and willingness to enhance and repair cognition with brain stimulation" in Brain Stimulation. John D. Medaglia et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/dtw2g
• "Children’s developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection" in Developmental Psychology. Ilona Bass et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/4fztv
• "Rituals, Repetitiveness and Cognitive Load" in Human Nature. Johannes Alfons Karl & Ronald Fischer. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ew8gj
• "Do Institutional Characteristics Predict Markers of Adulthood? A Close Replication of Fosse and Toyokawa (2016)" in Emerging Adulthood. Jon E. Grahe et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/wxkyj
• "Political Extremity, Social Media Use, Social Support, and Well-Being for Emerging Adults During the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign" in Emerging Adulthood. Dana C. Leighton, Mark J. Brandt, & Lindsay A. Kennedy. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/rnd9r
• "Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks" in Wellcome Open Research. Zoe V.J. Woodhead, Holly A. Rutherford, & Dorothy V.M. Bishop. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/6qzex
• "Joining the club: explaining alliance preferences in the South Caucasus" in Caucasus Survey. Namig Abbasov & David Siroky. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/9myb2
• "Looking on the Bright Side: Replicating the Association between Brightness and Positivity" in Collabra: Psychology. Eva Specker & Helmut Leder. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/uafyb
• "Communicating quantitative evidence of policy effectiveness and support for the policy: Three experimental studies" in Social Science & Medicine. J.P. Reynolds, M. Pilling, & T.M. Marteau. Preregistered here: Study 1: https://osf.io/nckdj Study 3: https://osf.io/8nfj9
• "Sexual Attitudes, Erotophobia, and Sociosexual Orientation Differ Based on Relationship Orientation" in The Journal of Sex Research. Rhonda N. Balzarini et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/g7qcs
• "Microdosing psychedelics: personality, mental health, and creativity differences in microdosers" in Psychopharmacology. Thomas Anderson et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ke49d
• "Some People Heed Advice Less than Others: Agency (but Not Communion) Predicts Advice Taking" in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Thomas Schultze, Tanja M. Gerlach, & Jacob C. Rittich. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/wwez4
• "Not Just Asking Questions: Effects of Implicit and Explicit Conspiracy Information About Vaccines and Genetic Modification" in Health Communication. Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Merola, & Jason Reifler. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/nmha9
• "How generalizable is the inverse relationship between social class and emotion perception?" in PLoS ONE. Christen M. Deveney et al. Preregistered here: Study 1: https://osf.io/vab4f and https://osf.io/dgnhs
• "Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems" in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Joseph M. Craine et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/zhuwa
• "Effects of incidental positive emotion and cognitive reappraisal on affective responses to negative stimuli" in Cognition and Emotion. Yu Song et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/w8cnz and https://osf.io/5z7qa
• "Inflammatory Comments Elicit Less Outrage When Made in Anonymous Online Contexts" in Social Psychology and Personality Science. Curtis Puryear & Joseph A. Vandello. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/5cb94
• "Overconfidence Across Cultures" in Collabra: Psychology.  Don A. Moore, Amelia S. Dev, & Ekaterina Y. Goncharova. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7y62u
• "Biased by the Group: Memory for an Emotional Expression Biases Towards the Ensemble" in Collabra: Psychology.  Jonathan C. Corbin & L. Elizabeth Crawford. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/eqph8
• "Interpretation of time-to-event outcomes in randomized trials: an online randomized experiment" in Annals of Oncology. I.R. Weir et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7zv63
• "Semantic processes in preferential decision making" in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Sudeep Bhatia. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/9wzdn & https://osf.io/u8nem
• "Reward elicits cognitive control over emotional distraction: Evidence from pupillometry" in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Amy T. Walsh, David Carmel, & Gina M. Grimshaw. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/jd96p
• "Vagus nerve stimulation intensity influences motor cortex plasticity" in Brain Stimulation. Robert A. Morrison et al. Preregistered here:  https://osf.io/3bxgc
• "The Impact of Workplace Health Promotion Programs Emphasizing Individual Responsibility on Weight Stigma and Discrimination" in Frontiers in Psychology. Susanne Täuber, Laetitia B. Mulder, & Stuart W. Flint. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/69qmc
• "The time course of encoding and maintenance of task-relevant versus irrelevant object features in working memory" in Cortex. Andrea Bocincova & Jeffrey S. Johnson. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/h6p5v
• "Effects of male testosterone and its interaction with cortisol on self- and observer-rated personality states in a competitive mating context" in the Journal of Research in Personality. Tobias L. Kordsmeyer & Lars Penke. Preregistered here: Studies 2 & 3: https://osf.io/uhzf3
• "Unravelling the Cognition of Coding in 3-to-6-year Olds: The development of an assessment tool and the relation between coding ability and cognitive compiling of syntax in natural language" in  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. Eva Marinus et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/e3rku
• "ERN modulation under sustained threat: A pre-registered report" in the Journal of Research in Personality. Rita Pasion et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ua5pk
• "A cross-sectional bibliometric study showed suboptimal journal endorsement rates of STROBE and its extensions" in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. Melissa K. Sharp et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/u75gb
• "Intact counterfactual emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from eye‐tracking" in Autism Research. Jo Black et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/vcunf
• "Is Formidability Associated with Political Conservatism?" in Evolutionary Psychological Science. Nicholas Kerry & Damian R. Murray. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/jczuk
• "Mechanisms of Epistemic Change—Under Which Circumstances Does Diverging Information Support Epistemic Development?" in Frontiers in Psychology. Martin Kerwer & Tom Rosman. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/te7wk
• "Post-weaning housing conditions influence freezing during contextual fear conditioning in adult rats" in Behavioural Brain Research. Natalie Schroyens et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/8ezmq
• "Impact of Handedness on Disability After Unilateral Upper-Extremity Peripheral Nerve Disorder" in Hand. Benjamin A. Philip, Vicki Kaskutas, & Susan E. Mackinnon. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/w9sh5
• "The impact of past behaviour normality on regret: replication and extension of three experiments of the exceptionality effect" in Cognition and Emotion. Lucas Kutscher & Gilad Feldman. Preregistered here: Experiment 1: https://osf.io/3cre2 and Experiment 2: https://osf.io/9acsf
• "Disabled or Cyborg? How Bionics Affect Stereotypes Toward People With Physical Disabilities" in Frontiers in Psychology. Bertolt Meyer & Frank Asbrock. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/u2srb
• "Comprehenders model the nature of noise in the environment" in Cognition. Rachel Ryskin et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/83nsn
• "The affective twitches of task switches: Task switch cues are evaluated as negative" in Cognition. Luc Vermeylen, Senne Braem, Wim Notebaert. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/dj4e6 and https://osf.io/t3jm4
• "Offline consolidation supersedes prior knowledge benefits in children's (but not adults’) word learning" in Developmental Science. Emma James, M. Gareth Gaskell, & Lisa M. Henderson. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/s2628/registrations
• "Infants’ center bias in free viewing of real-world scenes" in Vision Research. Daan R. van Renswoude et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/fg6sd
• "Spacing of cue-approach training leads to better maintenance of behavioral change" in PLoS ONE. Akram Bakkour et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/pgyrv
• "Memory-Focused Cognitive Therapy for Cocaine Use Disorder: Theory, Procedures and Preliminary Evidence From an External Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial" in EBioMedicine. John Marsden et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/3kfzj
• "Does helping promote well-being in at-risk youth and ex-offender samples?" in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Katherine B. Hanniball et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/4cyun
• "The understanding of complex syntax in children with Down syndrome" in Wellcome Open Research. Pauline Frizelle et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/5ntvc
• "The language of lies: a preregistered direct replication of Suchotzki and Gamer (2018; Experiment 2)" in Cognition and Emotion. Avi Frank, Sena Biberci, & Bruno Verschuere. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/z9kme
• "Do we see it or not? Sensory attenuation in the visual domain" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Katherine A. Schwarz et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/k3ews & https://osf.io/chhh7
• "The Nature of Math Anxiety in Adults: Prevalence and Correlates" in the Journal of Numerical Cognition. Sara Hart & Colleen Ganley. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/5w4yb
• "Real-world unexpected outcomes predict city-level mood states and risk-taking behavior" in PLoS ONE. A. Ross Otto & Johannes C. Eichstaedt. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7sk3j
• "Motivations for Sexual Behavior and Intentions to Use Condoms: Development of the Regulatory Focus in Sexuality Scale" in Archives of Sexual Behavior. David L. Rodrigues et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/nzkmn
• "Are Bigger Brains Smarter? Evidence From a Large-Scale Preregistered Study" in Psychological Science. Gideon Nave et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/fvm7p
• "Mobilizing Millennial Voters with Targeted Internet Advertisements: A Field Experiment" in Political Communication. Katherine Haenschen & Jay Jennings. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/35k4m
• "Embryonic heart rate predicts prenatal development rate, but is not related to post‐natal growth rate or activity level in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)" in Ethology. Elizabeth L. Sheldon & Simon C. Griffith. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/mcy35
• "Methods to detect low quality data and its implication for psychological research" in Behavior Research Methods. Erin M. Buchanan & John E. Scofield. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/erqzm
• "The evil eye effect: vertical pupils are perceived as more threatening" in Cognition and Emotion. Sinan Alper, Elif Oyku Us, & Dicle Rojad Tasman. Preregistered here: Study 2: https://osf.io/75mnw, Study 5: https://osf.io/2vjfe, Study 6: https://osf.io/v5e83, Study 7: https://osf.io/7a46z
• "Compliance with ecological momentary assessment protocols in substance users: a meta‐analysis" in Addiction. Andrew Jones et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/47dwh
• "Failed Attempts to Improve the Reliability of the Alcohol Visual Probe Task Following Empirical Recommendations" in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Andrew Jones, Paul Christiansen, & Matt Field. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/xk3nc
• "Training articulation sequences: A first systematic modulation of the articulatory in–out effect" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Anita Körner, Giti Bakhtiari, & Sascha Topolinski. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7exvy
• "Tissue-Dependent Expression of Bitter Receptor TAS2R38 mRNA" in Chemical Senses. Jennifer E. Douglas et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/q4a3u
• "Does Abstract Mindset Decrease or Increase Deception?" in Social Psychology. Sinan Alper. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ymf6g
• "The dynamical signature of anhedonia in Major Depressive Disorder: Positive emotion dynamics, reactivity, and recovery" in BMC Psychiatry. Vera E. Heininga et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/gmfsc
• "Reaction Time-Based Concealed Information Test in Eyewitness Identification is moderated by Picture Similarity but not Eyewitness Cooperation" in Psychological Research. Katerina Georgiadou et al. Preregistered here: Study 2a: https://osf.io/4wksy and Study 2b: https://osf.io/4y7ge
• "Disability Self-Identification and Well-Being in Emerging Adults" in Emerging Adulthood. Holly McCartney Chalk, Christopher P. Bartlett, & Natalie D. Bartlett. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ecxp5
• "Emerging Adulthood MoA/IDEA-8 Scale Characteristics From Multiple Institutions" in Emerging Adulthood. Caitlin Faas et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/va364
• "Better calibration when predicting from experience (rather than description)" in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Adrian R. Camilleri & Ben R. Newell. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/eb625
• "P-curve accurately rejects evidence for homeopathic ultramolecular dilutions" in PeerJ. Samuel Reisman, Mostafa Balboul, & Tashzna Jones. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/v2e7g
• "The Smile-Seeking Hypothesis: How Immediate Affective Reactions Motivate and Reward Gift Giving" in Psychological Science. Adelle X. Yang & Oleg Urminsky. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/3kwes
• "Scaling Effective Learning Strategies: Retrieval Practice and Long-Term Knowledge Retention in MOOCs" in the Journal of Learning Analytics. Dan Davis et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/4py2h
• "Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Campaign for Social Anxiety Disorder" in Stigma and Health. Gabriella Ponzini et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/4xajv
• "Emotional Abuse Moderates Efficacy of an Ecological Momentary StressManagement Intervention for College Students" in the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Viann N. Nguyen-Feng, Federico N. Romano, & Patricia Frazier. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/hgfrt
• "Speciesism, generalized prejudice, and perceptions of prejudiced others" in Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Jim A.C. Everett et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/fyu6s
• "Who can resist a villain? Morality, Machiavellianism, imaginative resistance and liking for dark fictional characters" in Poetics. Jessica E. Black et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/hyq45
• "Digital Footprints of Sensation Seeking: A Traditional Concept in the Big Data Era" in Zeitschrift für Psychologie. Ramona Schoedel et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/wg38b
• "Distributed Learning in the Classroom: Effects of Rereading Schedules Depend on Time of Test" in Frontier in Psychology. Carla E. Greving & Tobias Richter. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/7etq5
• "Investigating the effects of Inhibition Training on Attentional Bias change: a simple Bayesian Approach" in Frontiers in Psychology. Sandersan Onie et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/jm2c7
• "The Effect of Isomorphic Pitch Layouts on the Transfer of Musical Learning" in Applied Sciences. Sophia Stanford, Andrew J. Milne, & Jennifer MacRitchie. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/xt3n8
• "The Meta-Science of Adult Statistical Word Segmentation: Part 1" in Collabra: Psychology. Joshua K. Hartshorne et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/k2hu4
• "Who Deals With the Devil? Interdependence, Personality, and Corrupted Collaboration" in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Karolina Ścigała et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/grejx
• "The Big Five Inventory–2: Replication of Psychometric Properties in a Dutch Adaptation and First Evidence for the Discriminant Predictive Validity of the Facet Scales" in the Journal of Personality Assessment. Jaap Denissen et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/gkh8j
• "The Effects of Clavulanic Acid and Amoxicillin on Cue-Primed Reinstatement of Cocaine Seeking" in Behavioral Neuroscience. Allison Bechard et al. Preregistered here: https://osf.io/ynefz
• "AI-Mediated Communication: How the Perception that Profile Text was Written by AI Affects Trustworthiness" in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings. Maurice Jakesch et al. Preregistered here: Study 3: https://osf.io/4sjrh

Recipients of the Preregistration Prizes will have preregistered an approved research plan via osf.io/prereg and have the results of that research published in an eligible journal by the end of 2018. We consider work to have been published when the journal provided the author with the digitial object identifier (DOI) that indicates the work is being published. Actual dates on final papers may vary, but we felt this was the best way to ensure credible and verfiable evidence that work was published in a peer reviewed outlet.

Past Winners from 2018 (1, 2) and 2017. See this Zotero collection for a complete listing.