Registered Reports for Student Research

Abstract

The pre-registration of research via registered reports is a recent development in the field of psychology. The aim of pre-registration is to encourage research that presents sound hypotheses and methodology (Chambers, 2014) in order to counter undesirable but prevalent research practices such as cherry-picking and p-hacking. In this Letter from the Editors, we wish to echo calls for registered reports and outline how we, the Editors at the Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS), plan to introduce registered reports for student research. We address the issues necessitating the introduction of registered reports and outline the approach needed for implementing this initiative in a student journal.