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title: Announcing the Latest Prereg Prize Winners
description: Announcing the Latest Prereg Prize Winners
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# [Announcing the Latest Prereg Prize Winners](https://www.cos.io/about/news/jan-2018-prereg-winners)

 Written by [Center for Open Science](https://www.cos.io/about/news/author/center-for-open-science) | Jan 3, 2018 12:13:00 PM

We are happy to announce the most recent prize winners as part of our ongoing education campaign, the [Preregistration Challenge](http://cos.io/our-services/prereg/). 

Are you ready to improve your next study? Preregister it on [OSF](https://osf.io/prereg).

### **Recent winners:**

**"[Social Distance Increases Perceived Physical Distance](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617707017)" **in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Andrea Stevenson Won, Ketaki Shriram, Diana I. Tamir. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/xar84/](https://osf.io/xar84/)

**"[Show Me the Money: A Systematic Exploration of Manipulations, Moderators, and Mechanisms of Priming Effects](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0956797617706161)"** in Psychological Science. Eugene M. Caruso, Oren Shapira, Justin F. Landy. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/fj2gt](https://osf.io/fj2gt/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[A dissociation between engagement and learning: Enthusiastic instructions fail to reliably improve performance on a memory task](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181775)"** in PLOS One. Benjamin A. Motz , Joshua R. de Leeuw, Paulo F. Carvalho, Kaley L. Liang, Robert L. Goldstone. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/qmg95/](https://osf.io/qmg95/)

"**[A preregistered, direct replication attempt of the retrieval-extinction effect in cued fear conditioning in rats](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074742717301223)" **in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Laura Luyten and Tom Beckers. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/wg7ap](https://osf.io/wg7ap/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[The effect of recall, reproduction, and restudy on word learning: a pre-registered study](https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-017-0198-8)**" in BMC Psychology. Saloni Krishnan, Kate E. Watkins and Dorothy V.M. Bishop. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/6n9df](https://osf.io/6n9df/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[The citation effect: In-text citations moderately increase belief in trivia claims](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691816302104)" **in Acta Psychologica. Adam L. Putnam and Riley J. Phelps. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/dv8fs/](https://osf.io/dv8fs/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[Quantifying immediate and delayed effects of anthelmintic exposure on ecosystem functioning supported by a common dung beetle species](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182730)"** in PLOS One. Paul Manning , Sarah A. Beynon, Owen T. Lewis. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/fexj2](https://osf.io/fexj2/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Configural processing and social judgments: Face inversion particularly disrupts inferences of human-relevant traits](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103116302542)" **in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. John Paul Wilson, Steven G. Young, Nicholas O. Rule, Kurt Hugenberg. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/zjevk](https://osf.io/zjevk/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[The cognate facilitation effect in bilingual lexical decision is influenced by stimulus list composition](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691816302839)****" **in Acta Psychologica. Eva D. Poort, Jennifer M. Rodd. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/9b4a7](https://osf.io/9b4a7/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

 

"**[Reducing sugar use in coffee while maintaining enjoyment: A randomized controlled trial](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105317723452)" **in Journal of Health Psychology. Richie L. Lenne, Traci Mann. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/hz478](https://osf.io/hz478/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Pre-service teachers’ perceived value of general pedagogical knowledge for practice: Relations with epistemic beliefs and source beliefs](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184971)**" in PLOS One. Samuel Merk , Tom Rosman, Julia Rueß, Marcus Syring, Jürgen Schneider. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/4sjw6](https://osf.io/4sjw6/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Subliminal influence on preferences? A test of evaluative conditioning for brief visual conditioned stimuli using auditory unconditioned stimuli](http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/9/160935)"** in Royal Society Open Science. Tobias Heycke, Frederik Aust, Christoph Stahl. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/3eda4](https://osf.io/3eda4/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[MRIQC: Advancing the automatic prediction of image quality in MRI from unseen sites](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184661)"** in PLOS One. Oscar Esteban , Daniel Birman, Marie Schaer, Oluwasanmi O. Koyejo, Russell A. Poldrack, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/wsnjb](https://osf.io/wsnjb/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11692-017-9432-9)"** in Evolutionary Biology. Thomas Merkling, Shinichi Nakagawa, Malgorzata Lagisz, and Lisa E. Schwanz. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/vfnhg](https://osf.io/vfnhg/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[A hard-to-read font reduces the framing effect in a large sample](https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13423-017-1395-4)**" in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Christoph W. Korn, Juliane Ries, Lennart Schalk, Yulia Oganian, and Henrik Saalbach. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/aqnmq](https://osf.io/aqnmq/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Cousins or conjoined twins: how different are meaning and happiness in everyday life?](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23743603.2017.1376580)" **in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Ryan Dwyer, Elizabeth Dunn, & Hal Hershfield. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/nq64z/](https://osf.io/nq64z/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[The effect of question structure on self-reported drinking: Ascending versus descending order effects](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656617301071)**" in Journal of Research in Personality. Sean P. Mackinnon, and Samantha Firth. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/prvu5/](https://osf.io/prvu5/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[The role of vigilance in the relationship between neuroticism and health: A registered report](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656617301083)**" in Journal of Research in Personality. Sara J. Weston and Joshua J. Jackson. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/fjqtu/](https://osf.io/fjqtu/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Construing action abstractly and experiencing autonomy: Implications for physical activity and diet](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-017-9645-3)**" in Motivation and Emotion. Allison M. Sweeney and Antonio L. Freitas. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/kxq8p/](https://osf.io/kxq8p/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Unintended effects of measuring implicit processes: The case of death-thought accessibility in mortality salience studies](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117303517)**" in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Joseph Hayes and Jeff Schimel. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/xkv45/](https://osf.io/xkv45/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027717302743?via%3Dihub)" **in Cognition. Lauren E. Marsh, Patricia Kanngiesser, Bruce Hood. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/pbmvr/](https://osf.io/pbmvr/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[Infectious Disease and Imperfections of Self-Image](http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/Xvp6YYVGVrbci5wcR2k5/full)" **in Psychological Science. Joshua M. Ackerman, Joshua M. Tybur, Chad R. Mortensen. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/zvhb8/](https://osf.io/zvhb8/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67) and here: [https://osf.io/9xqpw/](https://osf.io/9xqpw/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[Cognitive bias modification for facial interpretation: a randomized controlled trial of transfer to self-report and cognitive measures in a healthy sample](http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/12/170681)**" in Royal Society Open Science. S. E. Peters, J. Lumsden, O. H. Peh, I. S. Penton-Voak, M. R. Munafò, O. J. Robinson. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/mrf9a/](https://osf.io/mrf9a/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

"**[Language complexity, belief-consistency, and the evaluation of policies](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23743603.2017.1404427)" **in Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. Matthew H. Goldberg & Cheryl L. Carmichael. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/mrkv3/](https://osf.io/mrkv3/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

**"[Visual Motion Prediction and Verbal False Memory Performance in Autistic Children](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1915/full)**" in Autism Research. Furtuna G. Tewolde, Dorothy V. M. Bishop, Catherine Manning. Preregistered here: [https://osf.io/pv4w6/](https://osf.io/pv4w6/register/565fb3678c5e4a66b5582f67)

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**See past winners**** [here](http://cos.io/about/news/announcing-eight-new-published-studies-took-prereg-challenge/)**

[View full post](https://www.cos.io/about/news/jan-2018-prereg-winners)

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