Submit a report

Announcements

Please note that we will be CLOSED to ALL SUBMISSIONS from 1 December 2024 through 12 January 2025 to give our recommenders and reviewers a holiday break.

We are recruiting recommenders (editors) from all research fields!

Your feedback matters! If you have authored or reviewed a Registered Report at Peer Community in Registered Reports, then please take 5 minutes to leave anonymous feedback about your experience, and view community ratings.

781

Does Truth Pay? Investigating the Effectiveness of the Bayesian Truth Serum with an Interim Payment: A Registered Report use asterix (*) to get italics
Claire M. Neville, Matt N. WilliamsPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"
2024
<p>Self-report data is vital in psychological research, but biases like careless responding and socially desirable responding can compromise its validity. While various methods are employed to mitigate these biases, they have limitations. The Bayesian Truth Serum (BTS; Prelec, 2004) offers a novel survey scoring method to incentivise truthfulness by leveraging correlations between personal and collective opinions and rewarding ‘surprisingly common’ responses. However, the effectiveness of the BTS across disciplines remains inconclusive, with possible challenges including participant disbelief and uncertainty regarding incentives. Through a between-subject, experimental survey design, this study aims to assess the efficacy of the BTS, particularly in mitigating biases associated with sensitive questions, potentially inducing SDR. It will explore whether introducing an interim payment during the survey enhances BTS efficacy by demonstrating to participants that the researcher can and will reward honesty. Participants will be randomly assigned to three conditions: BTS alone, BTS with Interim Payment, and Regular Incentive. They will complete a questionnaire comprising ten sensitive questions, and analyses will compare mean scores between groups. The outcomes of this study will provide insights into the effectiveness of the BTS alone and with an interim payment in promoting honesty, with implications for survey design and data collection methods.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
You should fill this box only if you chose 'All or part of the results presented in this preprint are based on data'. URL must start with http:// or https://
You should fill this box only if you chose 'Scripts were used to obtain or analyze the results'. URL must start with http:// or https://
You should fill this box only if you chose 'Codes have been used in this study'. URL must start with http:// or https://
Bayesian Truth Serum (BTS), Data integrity, Incentivising truthfulness, Response biases, Self-report data, Sensitive questions, Socially Desirable Responding (SDR), Survey methodology.  
NonePlease indicate the methods that may require specialised expertise during the peer review process (use a comma to separate various required expertises).
Social sciences
Martin Schnuerch suggested: Dr. Julia Meisters, julia.meisters@uni-duesseldorf.de , Martin Schnuerch suggested: Dr. Adrian Hoffmann, adrian.hoffmann@uni-duesseldorf.de
e.g. John Doe john@doe.com
No need for them to be recommenders of PCI Registered Reports. Please do not suggest reviewers for whom there might be a conflict of interest. Reviewers are not allowed to review preprints written by close colleagues (with whom they have published in the last four years, with whom they have received joint funding in the last four years, or with whom they are currently writing a manuscript, or submitting a grant proposal), or by family members, friends, or anyone for whom bias might affect the nature of the review - see the code of conduct
e.g. John Doe john@doe.com
2024-05-02 06:40:18
Romain Espinosa
Sarahanne Miranda Field, Martin Schnuerch, Philipp Schoenegger