TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mertzen, Daniela
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - Preregistration is an open science practice that requires the specification of research hypotheses and analysis plans before the data are inspected. Here, we discuss the benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven, confirmatory bilingualism research. Using examples from psycholinguistics and bilingualism, we illustrate how non-peer reviewed preregistrations can serve to implement a clean distinction between hypothesis testing and data exploration. This distinction helps researchers avoid casting post-hoc hypotheses and analyses as confirmatory ones. We argue that, in keeping with current best practices in the experimental sciences, preregistration, along with sharing data and code, should be an integral part of hypothesis-driven bilingualism research.
KW  - preregistration
KW  - open science
KW  - bilingualism
KW  - psycholinguistics
KW  - confirmatory analysis
KW  - exploratory analysis
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000031
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 24
IS  - 5
SP  - 807
EP  - 812
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -