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psci-study-design

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Use when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control. Strengthens the design and pre-analysis plan; it does not write code.

When to use

• Planning a study or multi-study package
• Writing a preregistration or pre-analysis plan
• Writing a Registered Report Stage 1
• Justifying sample size and stopping rules
• Addressing reviewer questions on power, design, or confounds
• Controlling researcher degrees of freedom
• Designing multi-study logic for generalization or mechanism

When not to use

• Writing code
• Data analysis

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