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Hanne M. Watkins is a postdoctoral research associate in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include moral psychology, the rules of war, the ethics of emerging military technologies, and war commemorations. She’s also interested in understanding how to implement new tools for increasing the reliability, validity, and transparency of psychological science.
Don’t be tempted to rewrite research history. Registered reports can help you design and evaluate studies with guards against changing the story once the results come in.