The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research
- 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.
| Author details: | Daniela MertzenORCiDGND, Sol LagoORCiD, Shravan VasishthORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000031 |
| ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1841 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Bilingualism : language and cognition |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/03/29 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2023/06/23 |
| Tag: | bilingualism; confirmatory analysis; exploratory analysis; open science; preregistration; psycholinguistics |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Article number: | PII S1366728921000031 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 807 |
| Last Page: | 812 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)German Research Foundation (DFG) [317633480 -SFB 1287] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
