TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lonsdorf, Tina B.
A1  - Klingelhöfer-Jens, Maren
A1  - Andreatta, Marta
A1  - Beckers, Tom
A1  - Chalkia, Anastasia
A1  - Gerlicher, Anna
A1  - Jentsch, Valerie L.
A1  - Drexler, Shira Meir
A1  - Mertens, Gaetan
A1  - Richter, Jan
A1  - Sjouwerman, Rachel
A1  - Wendt, Julia
A1  - Merz, Christian J.
T1  - Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research
JF  - eLife
N2  - In this report, we illustrate the considerable impact of researcher degrees of freedom with respect to exclusion of participants in paradigms with a learning element. We illustrate this empirically through case examples from human fear conditioning research, in which the exclusion of ‘non-learners’ and ‘non-responders’ is common – despite a lack of consensus on how to define these groups. We illustrate the substantial heterogeneity in exclusion criteria identified in a systematic literature search and highlight the potential problems and pitfalls of different definitions through case examples based on re-analyses of existing data sets. On the basis of these studies, we propose a consensus on evidence-based rather than idiosyncratic criteria, including clear guidelines on reporting details. Taken together, we illustrate how flexibility in data collection and analysis can be avoided, which will benefit the robustness and replicability of research findings and can be expected to be applicable to other fields of research that involve a learning element.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52465
SN  - 2050-084X
VL  - 8
PB  - eLife Sciences Publications
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lonsdorf, Tina B.
A1  - Klingelhöfer-Jens, Maren
A1  - Andreatta, Marta
A1  - Beckers, Tom
A1  - Chalkia, Anastasia
A1  - Gerlicher, Anna Maria Veronika
A1  - Jentsch, Valerie L.
A1  - Drexler, Shira Meir
A1  - Mertens, Gaetan
A1  - Richter, Jan
A1  - Sjouwerman, Rachel
A1  - Wendt, Julia
A1  - Merz, Christian J.
T1  - Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research
JF  - eLife
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52465
SN  - 2050-084X
VL  - 8
PB  - eLife Sciences Publications
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -