🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025).

We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025.

arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Zoltan Dienes, one of our PIs, has been editing, authoring and reviewing Registered Reports since 2013. He has tried to put in concise form the lessons learned and what that means for how he approaches research. See his lessons learned here:
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A new review article out at Behavior Research Methods with @ocorneille.bsky.social and Chloé Fournier Bernard: Addressing Demand Artifacts in Psychological Research (and Beyond). rdcu.be/fAU2f

This Thursday (May 21st) sees the first meeting of the Phenomenal Workshop at the University of Sussex.

This one-day workshop is focused on those using the Phenomenological Control Scale, with talks discussing the theory and application of phenomenological control. www.phenomenal-workshop.com

“Mesmer’s Error: Beliefs Reverse the Rubber Hand Illusion (Registered Report)” w/@zoltandienes.bsky.social. Suggestion can reverse classic body ownership illusion effects (greater effect for async control). Multisensory synchrony is neither necessary nor sufficient for the illusion. bit.ly/4wvHeUy

A new preprint: Norms for a German version of the Phenomenological Control Scale from Moritz Schiltenwolf (@skywooo.bsky.social) and Marie Luise Schreiter.
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"How participants create illusory experiences to help experimenters." A new preprint of a multi-study manuscript w/
@zoltandienes.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social & Ryan Scott, extending previous work on demand characteristics & phenomenological control in psychological effects. osf.io/n2ukj

A thread on a new preprint: "Addressing Demand Artifacts In Psychological Research (And Beyond)".

In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned:

Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures.

This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation.

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New preprint: "Belief-reinforcing unusual experiences may arise from phenomenological control". doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Reports a study testing predictions arising from the theory that phenomenological control evolved to promote experiences of a spirit world in order to support religious beliefs.

New article on the potential contribution of experimental demand artifacts to evaluative conditioning effects now published OA in SPPC: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

御茶ノ水女子大学の今泉修さん との論文「現象学的制御尺度（Phenomenological Control Scale）の日本語版開発」がNeuroscience of Consciousness誌に掲載されました！ 現象学的制御の個人差にご興味のある方はぜひご覧ください! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... (スレッドで解説します👇) #心理学 #現象学的制御

A Stage 1 registered report with Zoltan Dienes: "Reversing the Rubber Hand Illusion with demand characteristics and phenomenological control." A test of whether PC can reverse typical RHI effects, with stronger illusion responses for asynchronous than synchronous conditions.
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In this new preprint, we argue that the role of demand artifacts in evaluative conditioning research can't be readily dismissed.

We highlight methodological challenges by discussing three recent articles that addressed that question:

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