Preregistration Standards for Psychology - the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (aka PRP-QUANT) Template

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Preregistration Standards for Psychology - the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (aka PRP-QUANT) Template

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Preregistration Task Force

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Spitzer, Lisa

Blask, Katarina

Ferguson, Z.

Fraga Gonzalez, Gorka

Gallas-Lopes, Matheus

Guobyte, Aiste

Moffat, Ryssa

Pilot Reporting Task Force

Sætrevik, Bjørn

Shukla, Shanu

Sleigh, Ruby

Abstract / Description

As an international effort toward increasing psychology’s commitment to creating a stronger culture and practice of preregistration, a multi-society Preregistration Task Force* was formed, following the 2018 meeting of the German Psychological Society in Frankfurt, Germany. The task force created a detailed preregistration template that benefited from the APA JARS Quantitative Research Guidelines, as well as a comprehensive review of many other preregistration templates.

Version 4 was created based on findings from Spitzer, Kroeger & Mueller (2026, https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459261432216), the minimum criteria for preregistrations proposed by Hahn et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357568), as well as hackathons at SIPS 2025 and the Open Science Retreat 2025.

For more information about preregistration and the template in particular, we recommend reading the journal article detailing the intent and creation of the template (https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000879) and watching the webinar (http://bit.ly/PreRegWebinar) showing the launch of the template on October 27, 2020, featuring two keynote speakers: Simine Vazire of the University of Melbourne, and E. J. Wagenmakers of the University of Amsterdam.

This entry features the template, PRP_QUANT, in its current and previous versions. The template can be downloaded here in various formats or completed online at https://prereg-psych.org/.

*Preregistration Task Force members: from the American Psychological Association (APA): Fred Oswald - Open Science and Methodology Committee Member; Rose Sokol-Chang - Publisher, APA Journals and Books; Amanda Clinton - Director, APA International Affairs, from the British Psychological Society (BPS): Daryl O'Connor - Chair of the BPS Research Board; Lisa Coulthard - Head of Research and Impact, from the German Psychological Society (DGPs): Christian Fiebach - Secretary and Open Science Committee Member, from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID): Michael Bosnjak - Director; Stefanie Mueller - Head of study planning, data collection, and data analysis services; Camila Azúa - Research Assistant, from the Center for Open Science (COS): David Mellor - Director of Policy Initiatives

Keyword(s)

template open science

Persistent Identifier

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22316

Date of first publication

2026-07-16

Publisher

ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

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http://bit.ly/PreRegWebinar

https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000879

Citation

Preregistration Task Force. (2026). Preregistration Standards for Psychology - the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (aka PRP-QUANT) Template. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22316

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Deviation Template (PRP-DEV)

ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology), 2024-06-19, PsychArchives

The purpose of this template is to facilitate the documentation and reporting of deviations from preregistrations.
Conference Object
Slides: Preregistration Standards for Psychology

Preregistration Task Force & Wagenmakers, E. J. & Vazire, Simine, 2020-10-27, ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

As an international effort toward increasing psychology’s commitment to creating a stronger culture and practice of preregistration, a multi-society Preregistration Task Force* was formed, following the 2018 meeting of the German Psychological Society in Frankfurt, Germany. The Task Force created a detailed preregistration template that benefited from the APA JARS Quantitative Research guidelines, as well as a comprehensive review of many other preregistration templates.
Preregistration
Preregistration: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template

Spitzer, Lisa & Mueller, Stefanie & Bosnjak, Michael, 2021-01-15, ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

Currently, no standard procedure is available for creating preregistrations. Thus, a task force, consisting of members of prominent psychological societies and institutions, was formed to create a consensus template for quantitative research in psychology, the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4463 ; Preregistration Task Force, 2020 ) . This new preregistration template will be tested with the usability study described in this preregistration. The descriptive insights into the usability of the template are the main objective for this study. Furthermore, the intention to use the template in the future will be tested by implementing the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Based on this theory, it is expected that the behavioral intention to use the template is influenced by performance expectancy (moderated by gender and age), effort expectancy (moderated by gender, age, and experience), and social influence (moderated by gender, age, experience, and voluntariness of use). Participants will be recruited by contacting members of the divisions of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Furthermore, the study will be advertised on social media and via other psychology mailing lists. Only psychological researchers will be included. The study will be conducted as an online questionnaire. Participants will see the whole template and will be asked to give an overall evaluation. Furthermore, they will be requested to fill out a subset of template items and web probing questions, as well as a questionnaire measuring the variables of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.
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Appendixes for: Testing the Usability of the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template

Spitzer, Lisa & Mueller, Stefanie & Bosnjak, Michael, 2021-01-15, ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)

Currently, no standard procedure is available for creating preregistrations. Thus, a task force, consisting of members of prominent psychological societies and institutions, was formed to create a consensus template for quantitative research in psychology, the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (PRP-QUANT) Template (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4463 ; Preregistration Task Force, 2020 ) . This new preregistration template will be tested with the usability study described in this preregistration. The descriptive insights into the usability of the template are the main objective for this study. Furthermore, the intention to use the template in the future will be tested by implementing the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. Based on this theory, it is expected that the behavioral intention to use the template is influenced by performance expectancy (moderated by gender and age), effort expectancy (moderated by gender, age, and experience), and social influence (moderated by gender, age, experience, and voluntariness of use). Participants will be recruited by contacting members of the divisions of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). Furthermore, the study will be advertised on social media and via other psychology mailing lists. Only psychological researchers will be included. The study will be conducted as an online questionnaire. Participants will see the whole template and will be asked to give an overall evaluation. Furthermore, they will be requested to fill out a subset of template items and web probing questions, as well as a questionnaire measuring the variables of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.
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The Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology Template as Jupyter Notebook

Mueller, Stefanie, 2020-11-09, PsychArchives

The file provides the Preregistration for Quantitative Research in Psychology Template as a Jupyter Notebook. Fill in the fields, export as PDF and your fully formatted preregistration is complete. In order to use this file, you need to install JupyterLab (https://jupyter.org/) or register at PsychNotebook (psychnotebook.org). The template was developed by a task force composed members of the American Psychological Association (APA), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the German Psychological Society (DGPs), the Open Science Framework (osf), and the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID).

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2026-07-16

Version 4 was created based on findings from Spitzer, Kroeger & Mueller (2026), the minimum criteria for preregistrations proposed by Hahn et al. (2025), as well as hackathons at SIPS 2025 and the Open Science Retreat 2025.
3

2024-07-25

In a hackathon at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychological Science (SIPS 2023, in Padova, Italy), the PRP-QUANT Template was updated and refined, resulting in version 3.

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2

2021-02-18

Item "Descriptive statistics" was added as AP5. The enumerization of subsequent items was adjusted. Logos were removed.

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2021-01-14

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Author(s) / Creator(s)

Preregistration Task Force
Other kind(s) of contributor

Spitzer, Lisa
Other kind(s) of contributor

Blask, Katarina
Other kind(s) of contributor

Ferguson, Z.
Other kind(s) of contributor

Fraga Gonzalez, Gorka
Other kind(s) of contributor

Gallas-Lopes, Matheus
Other kind(s) of contributor

Guobyte, Aiste
Other kind(s) of contributor

Moffat, Ryssa
Other kind(s) of contributor

Pilot Reporting Task Force
Other kind(s) of contributor

Sætrevik, Bjørn
Other kind(s) of contributor

Shukla, Shanu
Other kind(s) of contributor

Sleigh, Ruby
PsychArchives acquisition timestamp

2026-07-16T07:36:56Z
Made available on

2021-01-14T16:41:57Z
Made available on

2021-02-18T11:21:46Z
Made available on

2024-07-25T11:36:37Z
Made available on

2026-07-16T07:36:56Z
Date of first publication

2026-07-16
Abstract / Description

As an international effort toward increasing psychology’s commitment to creating a stronger culture and practice of preregistration, a multi-society Preregistration Task Force* was formed, following the 2018 meeting of the German Psychological Society in Frankfurt, Germany. The task force created a detailed preregistration template that benefited from the APA JARS Quantitative Research Guidelines, as well as a comprehensive review of many other preregistration templates.

en
Abstract / Description

Version 4 was created based on findings from Spitzer, Kroeger & Mueller (2026, https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459261432216), the minimum criteria for preregistrations proposed by Hahn et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357568), as well as hackathons at SIPS 2025 and the Open Science Retreat 2025.

en
Abstract / Description

For more information about preregistration and the template in particular, we recommend reading the journal article detailing the intent and creation of the template (https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000879) and watching the webinar (http://bit.ly/PreRegWebinar) showing the launch of the template on October 27, 2020, featuring two keynote speakers: Simine Vazire of the University of Melbourne, and E. J. Wagenmakers of the University of Amsterdam.

en
Abstract / Description

This entry features the template, PRP_QUANT, in its current and previous versions. The template can be downloaded here in various formats or completed online at https://prereg-psych.org/.

en
Abstract / Description

*Preregistration Task Force members: from the American Psychological Association (APA): Fred Oswald - Open Science and Methodology Committee Member; Rose Sokol-Chang - Publisher, APA Journals and Books; Amanda Clinton - Director, APA International Affairs, from the British Psychological Society (BPS): Daryl O'Connor - Chair of the BPS Research Board; Lisa Coulthard - Head of Research and Impact, from the German Psychological Society (DGPs): Christian Fiebach - Secretary and Open Science Committee Member, from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID): Michael Bosnjak - Director; Stefanie Mueller - Head of study planning, data collection, and data analysis services; Camila Azúa - Research Assistant, from the Center for Open Science (COS): David Mellor - Director of Policy Initiatives
Citation

Preregistration Task Force. (2026). Preregistration Standards for Psychology - the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (aka PRP-QUANT) Template. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22316

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Persistent Identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/4042.4
Persistent Identifier

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.22316
Language of content

eng
Publisher

ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)
Is referenced by

http://bit.ly/PreRegWebinar
Is referenced by

https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000879
Is related to

https://www.psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/10125
Is related to

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4464
Is related to

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4465
Is related to

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4466
Is related to

https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4320
Keyword(s)

template
Keyword(s)

open science
Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)

150
Title

Preregistration Standards for Psychology - the Psychological Research Preregistration-Quantitative (aka PRP-QUANT) Template

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DRO type

other
Leibniz institute name(s) / abbreviation(s)

ZPID