Many of you may already be convinced that preregistration is the only way to go to do truly confirmatory research and improve the reliability of psychological science. If you’re not convinced yet, or need a refreshment of the reasons why future replication catastrophes can be prevented by the implementation of registered reports, read for example this post by Chris Chambers.

However, even if you are completely convinced by the arguments for preregistration, you might think: What could preregistration bring me as a scientist? Why would I bother? To answer this question, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and I present 7 selfish reasons to do so in the current issue of the APS observer.

To make it easier to memorise, we created this poster.